Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed building located in Wilberfoss, East Yorkshire. It features a 12th-century nave, a 13th-century chancel, a 14th-century south aisle, and a 19th-century west tower and south porch. The church is constructed of ashlar and coursed rubble, topped with a slate roof.

The west tower is three stages high and has a projecting stair turret at the southeast corner. It includes a moulded plinth and diagonal buttresses. The stair turret has slit windows, while the second stage features a square-headed window with a cinquefoil light. The belfry stage is marked by two-light pointed openings with cusped Y-tracery, all beneath a crenellated parapet with crocketed corner finials. The west door is boarded and set under a four-centred moulded arch.

The nave has a moulded plinth and diagonal buttresses, with the southwest quoin of the south aisle showcasing a cinquefoil-headed niche. There is a two-light square-headed window with Perpendicular tracery on the west side and a three-light square-headed window with Perpendicular tracery on the east. A late 14th-century boarded door features ironwork and blank carved Perpendicular tracery at the apex, along with applied 18th-century moulded rails and muntins below in a pointed opening with a continuous hollow chamfer.

On the north elevation, there are truncated remains of two 12th-century pilaster buttresses that rise from a damaged chamfered plinth. The chancel has a plain boarded priest's door in a chamfered opening under a segmental arch, a square-headed two-light window with cusped ogee tracery, and an east window consisting of three stepped lancets, all beneath a raised coped gable.

Inside, the pointed double-chamfered tower arch dies into plain responds. There is a boarded door under a four-centred arch leading to the south. The south arcade features three late 13th-century pointed double-chamfered arches supported by octagonal abaci, moulded capitals, and octagonal piers with spurs, all resting on square chamfered bases.