Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a largely 12th-century church with significant alterations and additions spanning several centuries. The original core is from the early 12th century, comprising the nave and chancel, which were altered and had a tower added in the 15th century. An 18th-century vestry was added, followed by a new nave and south aisle in 1897, extended eastwards around 1930. The church is constructed of ashlar, rubble, and dressed sandstone, with Welsh slate and tile roofs.

The west tower is of Perpendicular style, with three stages, a chamfered plinth, and a moulded band. It features a pointed-arched, three-light west window beneath a clock face. There are pointed, two-light, louvred belfry openings, a north gargoyle, and an altered parapet with a pitched roof. The early 12th-century nave has quoins and was heightened in the 15th century using ashlar. It has two hollow-chamfered, Tudor-arched, three-light windows, and a string course beneath an embattled parapet. The slightly lower and narrower 12th-century chancel has a lean-to north vestry with a two-light, chamfered, mullioned window and a 15th-century ashlar north wall.

19th and 20th-century additions are in Perpendicular style, with gable copings and crosses; the 20th-century work is constructed with snecked walling. A west door has a moulded, pointed arch and pinnacles, beneath a five-light west window with a hoodmould. A substantial buttress supports a three-light west window in the aisle gable. A south porch incorporates an early 12th-century south door with shafted jambs, beak-headed voussoirs, chequer and lozenge work in the tympanum, and damaged carving over. Subsequent bays of the aisle have three- and four-light windows, and the final 20th-century bay has a south door and a single-light window above. An east bellcote is also present. Diagonal east buttresses flank a four-light chancel window.

Inside, the 15th-century tower arch has chamfered quoins and a corbelled inner order, partly chamfered. The nave has a 15th-century roof with moulded, cambered tie beams, original rafters, and purlins, and carved bosses. The early 12th-century chancel arch has an inner order on half-columned imposts and quarter columns towards the nave, with volutes and heads to the capitals, and zig-zag ornament to the outer order. 19th-century arcades provide access to the new nave and south aisle, featuring octagonal piers, moulded capitals, and double-chamfered, pointed arches. A circular font stands on a double-chamfered plinth. There is a hexagonal pulpit dated 1727 with fielded panels, a contemporary splat-balustered communion rail, and panelling to the old chancel. Stained glass includes three late medieval panels in north windows, and a First World War memorial window in the old chancel. A marble wall monument commemorates Sir Thomas Hewett (died 1726) and his wife (died 1756).