Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church built in 1876, with a south chapel added in 1880 to accommodate boys from Seabank School. It is constructed from snecked tooled stone with tooled ashlar quoins and dressings, and features Welsh slate roofs, blue on the nave and purple on the eastern sections. The church has an aisleless 4-bay nave with a west tower over the porch, a chancel with a transeptal south chapel, a north organ chamber/vestry, and a canted apse, all designed in a simple 13th-century style.

The church has a chamfered plinth and a 3-stage tower with stepped diagonal buttresses and chamfered bands. The north and south sides feature diagonally-boarded double doors with foliate hinges, set under moulded arches with jamb shafts and foliage-carved hoodmould stops, along with a 2-light west window. The second stage of the tower has single lancets, and the belfry openings are slatted with Y-tracery. The square base of the octagonal stone spire has moulded brackets, gabled lucarnes, and a moulded finial. The side walls of the nave have lancets, paired in the end bays, with stepped buttresses in between. The east gable is coped on moulded kneelers and topped with a ring-cross finial. The south chapel features paired lancets and a slit in the gable above, while the apse has small angle buttresses and lancets with moulded arches on jamb shafts with carved capitals, topped with a wrought-iron cross finial. The organ chamber/vestry has diagonal buttresses and two lancets under a gable with a cross finial, along with a west diagonally-boarded door with foliate hinges.

Inside, the church is plastered. The chancel arch is double-chamfered and rests on carved corbels, with similar arches leading to the south chapel and organ chamber/vestry. The apse has a panelled marble dado. The nave features an arch-braced collar-beam roof on moulded corbels, while the chancel has a similar but painted roof on carved corbels. There is an octagonal moulded font and a carved pulpit, which serves as a memorial to Harold Kenyon Temperley, who was killed in Flanders in 1917. The apse windows contain Kempe glass, while the nave and west window feature later 20th-century Evetts glass.