Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church with a 14th-century west tower and a largely rebuilt body dating from 1867-8, designed by Edward Birchall of Leeds and paid for by Charles Brook of Enderby Hall. The church is constructed of granite rubble with limestone dressings and lead roofs. It comprises a west tower, nave, aisles, a south porch, a chancel, a north chapel, and a south organ chamber.

The west tower has been considerably restored and consists of three stages with a battlemented parapet, set-back buttresses, and a south-east stair. The bell chamber has two-light windows with cusped Y-tracery; the middle stage has clocks with Tudor hoodmoulds; and the ground floor has a single light with shafted jambs in the west wall. The rest of the church is in the decorated style, featuring moulded parapets with gabled finials to the buttresses, traceried windows, and carved stops to the hoodmoulds. The aisles have a three-light west window and five bays of two-light windows. The south door is set in a moulded arch on shafts with stiff-leaf capitals. The gabled porch has a similar arch and flanking buttresses. The organ chamber has a south gable with two two-light windows and an east door. The north chapel also has two-light windows and a north door in a moulded arch with shafts and a border of fleurons. The chancel has a two-light south window and a large five-light east window with reticulated tracery.

Inside the tower, a ballflower moulding surrounds the west window and a unique arch leads to the nave, characterised by heavy roll mouldings on shafts with carved foliage capitals. Carved heads are positioned between the outer mouldings of the arch on both the east and west sides, with a label above the arch featuring restored carved head stops. The remainder of the interior is from the 19th century. Nave arcades have five bays of moulded arches on quatrefoil piers, and the chancel arc rests on marble shaft corbels with carved foliage bases. The chancel has a pair of steeply moulded arches to the chapel, with sunken trefoil roundels in the soffits. A similar single arch leads to the organ chamber, featuring a carved figure of an angel playing an organ as a label stop. A cusped piscina is set within shafts in the north wall, and window reveals are shafted. Fittings include a carved stone reredos with texts in flanking gabled niches, a square stone font with carved corners and squat shafts, and listening tubes connecting the reading desk with two benches in the south aisle. Stained glass in the east window is by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake (1868), while a Jubilee window from 1887 is located in the west end of the south aisle.