Church Of Saint John The Baptist

The Church of Saint John the Baptist is a church of 1834, designed by Lewis Vulliamy. It was constructed with ashlar and has a slate roof. The church comprises a nave, a small chancel with an east vestry, and a west entrance with side porches leading to galleries.

The nave has eight bays, featuring a weathered plinth, continuous sill mould, continuous hood mould, a parapet with gablets, and weathered corner buttresses. Each bay has a lancet window. The gabled west elevation has a projecting central portion with three lancet windows, a central entrance, lean-to side porches, octagonal pinnacles, a gabled bellcote with clock faces, lancet openings, and a central finial. The single-bay chancel has a four-light east window and a double-gabled vestry, both being roofed continuously with the nave.

Inside, the nave is wide and has galleries supported by cast iron columns, with two tiers of galleries to the west. A large chancel arch is surmounted by a painted angelic choir. Notable interior features include a choir screen, pulpit, lectern, poppyhead pews, choir stalls, a hooded priest’s chair with a misericord, a gallery parapet, and semi-ceiled king-post roof trusses with cusped arcading. The church was built with a Commissioners' grant.