Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church dating from the 15th century, which was restored between 1866 and 1868 by G.G. Scott. The chancel is constructed of ironstone, while the nave, aisles, and central tower are made of limestone, all topped with lead roofs. The west window features a 3-light intersecting ogee design, and the aisle west windows are 2-light. The aisle windows are in the Perpendicular style, with the northern ones under triangular heads, a feature that is also seen in the aisle east windows, which are now 3-light. The clerestory has three 2-light Perpendicular windows with panel tracery and triangular heads on both sides.

The central tower has three stages, supported by diagonal stepped buttresses and a string course between the ringing chamber and the belfry stage. It includes single slit lights in the former and 3-light cusped windows in the latter. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet featuring eight crocketed pinnacles. The chancel has a single 2-light cusped Y tracery south window and a 3-light east window from the 19th century. Attached to the north side of the chancel is a 19th-century vestry with a sloping slate roof. Below the east window, there is a wall monument to William Smith from 1711, framed by entactic fluted pilasters with a reeded base and topped with a segmental pediment featuring a winged cherub head.

Inside, the church has a three-bay octagonal arcade with double chamfered arches supported by high bases and polygonal capitals. The crossing piers are also octagonal with high bases and octagonal capitals. The nave features a 19th-century roof with tie beams on arched braces, wall posts on corbels, and a moulded ridge piece with one pair of purlins and principals. The nave contains 20 benches with poppyhead carved ends, which display geometrical and tracery patterns, while the poppyheads depict allegorical scenes and figures. There are five additional bench ends attached to 19th-century benches, all dating from the late 15th century. The chancel roof mirrors that of the nave, and the chancel fittings are mostly from the 19th century, except for the altar rail, which dates to around 1630 and features turned balusters.