Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist, built in 1840 by Edmund Sharpe, features a chancel and organ house added in 1909. Constructed from sandstone with a shallow pitched slate roof, the church exhibits a simple Gothic style for the nave, which includes a porch and a west steeple, while the chancel and organ house are designed in the Perpendicular style.

The slender west tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and features large open 2-centred porch arches on three sides, with bands on three levels. The topmost band is stepped over a single belfry louvre on each side, and the tower is topped with a stepped parapet, crocketed corner pinnacles, and a slim octagonal spire. The five-bay buttressed nave has four square-headed windows, each with hoodmoulds and two cusped lights. At the west end, there is a gablet over a 2-centred arched doorway, which has a lancet above it; however, the door on the north side is missing.

The chancel, which has a higher and steeper roof, consists of two bays and features two 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery, along with an east window that has five lights and similar tracery. Inside, the nave is ceiled except at the west end, where there is a gallery supported by four slim iron columns with foliated openwork brackets. The gallery staircase has a closed string, stick balusters, and a ramped handrail. The chancel boasts a wagon roof, and on the north side, there is half of an arch that dies into the wall but continues externally on the wall of the organ house, possibly as an architectural joke.