St John the Baptist, Pinner

The West Tower and South Porch date from the 15th century.^[3] The vestry was designed by Temple Moore, and built in 1911. The stained glass windows are of many designs and ages, including two by Ninian Comper. The edges of the windows were restored by J. L. Pearson in 1879-80, and paid for by A. W. Tooke, a wealthy landowner in Pinner, and the son of William Tooke. Pearson also built the current church roof with gables, replacing an earlier one with attic windows.^[4]

The south chapel dates from 1859, and was enlarged in 1880. Among the church treasures is a 15th-century octagonal baptismal font, altar rails from the 17th century and an oak chest which must predate 1622, as it was recorded that it needed a new lock that year.^[3] The font cover dates from 1909. Numerous memorials include one in the church to Sir Christopher Clitherow, a former Lord Mayor of London who owned land on Pinner Hill in the seventeenth century; and an unusual one located in the churchyard, on the south side. It is in the form of a stone pyramid with a fake sarcophagus within, and was erected by the eighteenth-century botanist John Claudius Loudon in memory of his parents.^[4]

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51°35′40″N 0°22′44″W / 51.594550°N 0.378879°W / 51.594550; -0.378879