Church of St. John the Baptist

The Church of St. John the Baptist is a church rebuilt in 1868. It is constructed of ironstone ashlar with tile roofs, coped gable parapets, and a stone stack. The church is of Gothic Revival style, imitating the 13th century.

The church comprises a chancel, nave, north aisle and vestry, a south porch, and a west tower. The chancel is three bays and features a three-light east window with Geometrical tracery and a cross finial. The north and south sides of the nave have two- and three-bay configurations respectively, with two-light windows featuring cusped Y-tracery of alternating designs, hood moulds and block stops, the windows becoming progressively taller westward. The north side lacks buttresses. The south porch has a two-order doorway with inner half-shafts and moulded capitals, and nail-head detail. The return sides of the porch have trefoiled round arched lights. The south door has two orders, with nook shafts, moulded capitals, and a hood mould with foliage stops. A dated foundation stone is visible. The three-bay north aisle also has two-light windows with cusped Y-tracery. The vestry has a chamfered arched plank door and trefoiled lights to the east and north, along with a stack featuring a round shaft. The roofs of the aisle and vestry continue from the nave and chancel at a different pitch.

The three-stage tower has massive angle buttresses and a double splayed plinth. It features a four-light west window with intersecting tracery. The north and south sides have two-light windows with plate tracery. The second stage has a trefoiled circle on three sides. A stair turret on the north-east has a square first stage and a semi-circular second stage with a stone, half-conical roof and slit windows. The bell stage has nook shafts with shaft rings and two-light bell openings with trefoiled plate tracery and a central shaft with a stiff leaf capital. It is finished with string courses and a frieze of blind arcading, topped by a broach spire with lucarnes.

Inside the church, a recess documented in the Victoria County History, is reset beneath the north-west window. This recess is constructed of grey stone with moulded jambs, a cinque-foiled ogee arch with ballflower and a hood mould with head stops. It leads to the organ chamber and vestry. The chancel arch is of two chamfered orders with shafts and moulded capitals. The north arcade is Romanesque in style, with square responds and round pillars, scalloped capitals, and moulded bases, incorporating fragments from the 12th century. An east arch in the north aisle dates to approximately 1300 and consists of two chamfered orders, the inner order featuring detached shafts. The church contains a 19th-century marble font, fragments of 15th-century stained glass in the west window, and a 13th-century stone coffin lid carved in high relief, depicting an effigy of a deacon within a canopy with tabernacle work.