Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church dating back to the early 14th century, with substantial restoration and additions from the 19th century, including a north aisle and north vestry built around 1865. The church is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a plain-tile roof with ornamental ridge tiles and an ashlar-coped gable. A weatherboarded broach spire sits atop the structure. The church features an integral roofed chancel and nave, and a west tower.

The chancel's east window is round-headed, incorporating three cusped lancets. The north wall has a restored single cusped lancet, while the south wall displays two tall renewed cusped lancets flanking a restored chamfered pointed arched doorway with a plain plank door.

The nave’s C19 north aisle has cusped lancet windows, including a reset 13th century twin cusped lancet with a lozenge light above to the west. The aisle roof continues the nave roofline, incorporating a corbelled stone gutter bracket. Stone chimney stacks rise from the west gable return of the north aisle and the north vestry gable. The north vestry’s east wall has a cusped lancet and an ovolo-chamfered pointed arched doorway. The south wall of the nave has a pointed arch with twin cusped lancets and a quatrefoil to the right, and a restored cusped lancet to the left of the south doorway. The south doorway itself has a shallow ovolo chamfer under a simple hoodmould. The west gable features a carved figurative kneeler and sundial. A tiled gabled south porch of C19 timber framing sits on a high ashlar stone plinth, incorporating benches.

The tall, slightly tapered west tower has unbuttressed walls, with a cusped lancet to the south at ground level and round-headed slits at the upper stages (two to the south and west, and one to the north).

Inside, the nave and chancel roofs were remodelled around 1865. The chancel roof has four bays and four trusses, while the nave roof has three large bays with paired trusses. These trusses are arch-braced collar trusses, with upper and lower collars and a single purlin. A chancel screen carved in Louvain around 1865 is present. A pointed tower arch has recesses on each side. The spire timbers are mainly original, including the mast, lower bracing frames, broach purlins, hip rafters, cross-struts, and struts. A C14 plain octagonal font sits on a 20th century base. Three armorial hatchments are displayed in the nave.