Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II* listed building located on Grimston Main Street. It dates from the 13th and 15th centuries and was restored by R W Johnson in 1866. The church is constructed of coursed, squared ironstone and features slate roofs. It comprises a chancel, nave, south transept, south porch, and west tower.

The chancel has two bays and includes a three-light east window with Perpendicular tracery, a lancet window to the north, and two-light windows to the south with straight heads and ogee-arched heads, all featuring hood moulds with label stops. The nave has a blocked arch to the north transept, a blocked north door with a chamfer and hood mould, and three two-light windows at clerestory level with Perpendicular tracery and four-centred heads, all with hood moulds. There are four similar clerestory windows on the south side. The south transept has a small lancet window to the east and a three-light window to the south, both with Perpendicular tracery and hood moulds.

The south door has been renewed and features shafts and a many-moulded head, set within a 19th-century porch that has a shafted doorway and hood mould. The two-stage tower includes a three-light west window with Perpendicular tracery and two-light bell-chamber openings, all with hood moulds. The base of the battlemented parapet is adorned with a cusped lozenge frieze, and there are gargoyles and crocketed pinnacles at the angles.

Inside, there is a double piscina in the transept with pointed trefoiled arches. The nave features a Perpendicular roof with arch-braced ties supported by carved head corbels, one tier of moulded purlins, a moulded ridge, and decorative bosses. A clock dating from around 1600, which is an early provincial example of an anchor escapement, is also present. Additionally, there is a stained glass window in the southeast chancel, created in the early 20th century by Baguley of Newcastle.