Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a church constructed between 1832 and 1834 by Hayley and Brown for the Church Commissioners. It is built of hammer-dressed buff sandstone with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The church comprises a five-bay nave, a short chancel, a west tower and a small vestry to the east. The bays of the nave are divided by set-back buttresses and contain tall, splayed two-light windows with Y-tracery, all set under a continuous label mould. The building has embattled parapets. The nave ends in octagonal buttresses with pointed finials, while the chancel has similar buttresses and a triple lancet window. The four-stage west tower has similar corner buttresses, with a rebated pointed doorcase featuring a three-light window with intersecting tracery above. The third stage of the tower has a clock, and the fourth stage has louvred bell openings similar to those of the nave. The tower is topped with battlements. Internally, galleries on three sides were added in 1854 and feature lancet moulded panels supported by clusters of four thin iron columns. The remainder of the interior has been altered.