Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a church dating back to the 12th century, with subsequent phases of construction in the 13th, 14th and 17th centuries. It was restored in 1868 and 1911. The building is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings, and rendered rubble, and has a plain-tile roof. The plan consists of a chancel, a nave with a south porch, and a west tower.

The chancel east window is of two lights with a restored Decorated-style flat head. The north wall features a 12th-century round-headed lancet with a chevron incised head and sill. The south wall has a 13th-century lancet and another 13th-century cusped lancet.

The nave's north wall contains a 12th-century round-headed lancet with a bead surround. The south wall has a late 13th-century two-light plate tracery window, with an internally-lobed roundel under the rere arch, which incorporates a retable below. A 20th-century restored lancet is also present. A round-arched south doorway features roll moulding on the abaci and cushion capitals, with quadrant pilasters. Chevron ornament is visible on the outer abacus and capital, and the plain tympanum has a shouldered soffit. Vestigial chevron carvings are on the internal arch.

The south porch is tiled and gabled, containing arch-braced trusses believed to have been repositioned from a former lych-gate. The trusses have cambered tie beams, arched braces set into jowled posts, all chamfered with an ogee central stop on the tie beam. It includes a single tenoned-purlin with cusped windbraces, plain principals tenoned at the head, collars, a chamfered wall plate, and restored rafters, rails and plinth.

The two-stage west tower has inclined walls and a pyramid roof, with a small flat-headed lancet to the west and a cusped lancet to the south.

Inside, the chancel has an early 20th-century oak barrel-vaulted ceiling that covers an earlier roof. The 14th-century cusped lancet is set in a low rere arch containing a pillar piscina and stepped sedilia. The 12th-century chancel arch was formerly recessed, featuring abaci and cushion capitals on quadrant pilasters, with chevron carving on the outer arch, saltire crosses on the abaci and an attached string course running across the return walls. The nave has a three-bay double trenched-purlin roof with two trusses and straight wind braces at the upper tier, constructed as early king post trusses with raking struts set to the underside of the purlin trenches. A pointed tower arch is also present. A mid-17th century oak panelled pulpit has elaborately carved panel inserts. An unassuming font is likely from the 12th century. A memorial tablet commemorating Benjamin Giles, who died in 1795, is also within the church.