Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church largely dating to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 14th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The chancel was rebuilt in 1955. The church is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, having a Welsh slate and cement slate roof. Stone coped gables are present with plain kneelers. The building comprises a west tower, a nave with a south porch, a chancel, and a south chapel. A flat-roofed 20th-century projection with a five-light lancet window is situated on the south side of the chancel. The south side of the nave features three windows with paired round-arched lights, set within recessed and chamfered surrounds. A gabled, 18th-century porch stands on the south side, featuring a broad round-arched entrance with a keystone, moulded imposts, and a hoodmould. A smaller, two-light window is set high to its left.

The west tower is of two stages with a chamfered plinth and diagonal buttresses. An almost round-arched doorway, containing a 19th-century Gothic door, is on the west side. Above is a three-light Perpendicular window with panel tracery and a hoodmould. A chamfered string course runs below the bell stage where two-light bell openings with panel tracery and hoodmoulds are found in each direction. The tower is surmounted by a battlemented parapet with four crocketted pinacles. The north side of the church is pebble-dashed and has two large buttresses with multiple set-offs and two high mullioned windows. A large flat-roofed addition to the north side of the chancel mirrors the projection on the south side. The east window features three stepped, slightly pointed arches.

A Norman south doorway exists with one order of colonettes, spiral decoration in the capitals, and an arch with one roll moulding. Inside, the Norman chancel arch sits upon imposts with three shafts and capitals featuring volute and similar decorative varieties. It has two roll-moulded orders flanked by segmental arched doorways. The royal arms are positioned above the chancel arch and two lozenge-shaped hatchments are visible on the west wall, alongside four boards with painted texts. A raised and fielded panelled gallery is located in the west. A blocked round-arched north doorway is present. The nave roof has moulded canted tie-beams with cusped braces. A double-chamfered tower arch is present, formerly blocked below. A circular tub font stands within the church.