Church Of St. John The Baptist

The Church of St. John the Baptist is a parish church with a 15th-century tower and a church body rebuilt in 1861 by James Fowler of Louth, designed in a 13th-century style. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and squared greenstone rubble, with slate and tiled roofs featuring decorative iron ridges.

The church comprises a western tower, a nave with a clerestory, a south porch, a chancel, aisles, and a vestry. The three-stage buttressed tower has an embattled and pinnacled top with gargoyles. The belfry stage has cusped paired lights with panel tracery, hood moulds, and label stops on each face. Two black letter inscriptions and a pair of trefoil-headed lights are on the south side of the tower, at the middle stage. The continuously moulded west doorway is topped by a two-light window with panel tracery and a concave surround. The north aisle is separately roofed and has a three-light window to the west and four paired windows to the north. A charming, facetted vestry has pointed lights. The chancel has a fishscale tiled roof and an east window of three lights with Geometric tracery. The chancel south wall features a pair of two-light windows. The south aisle has four lancets on the south side, and a single one to the east and west. The clerestory contains four cusped triangular lights.

The gabled south porch has a moulded outer arch with angle shafts and trefoil side lights. The single chamfered inner doorway has a moulded hood and stops. Inside, the four-bay arcades feature octagonal piers, capitals, and double chamfered arches, incorporating much reused material. The double chamfered tower arch incorporates 15th-century moulded imposts and voussoirs. The 19th-century double chamfered chancel arch has keeled responds. The interior consists of banded brick and ashlar, with encaustic tiled texts and panels. The chancel roof is supported on moulded corbels, and includes a moulded doorway to the vestry. A handsome marble and mosaic reredos, dating from 1890, is accompanied by a stained glass window above, from 1892. All fixtures including a decorative cast iron chandelier and a panelled and stencilled organ are 19th-century.

The 15th-century octagonal font, with blank traceried panels, an octagonal stem, and base, originates from Little Carlton church. A 19th-century font is also present. Two wall monuments in the Gothic taste are located on the chancel north wall, dedicated to Frederic Pretyman, d.1905, and his wife Georgina.