Church Of St John Baptist

The Church of St John Baptist is a parish church dating back to the 14th century, with fabric from the 12th and late 13th centuries. It was restored in 1876. The church is constructed of rubble with roofs of stone slate and tile. It consists of a west tower with a stone spire, a nave with a north aisle and clerestory, a south transeptal chapel, and a lower chancel.

The three-stage west tower features diagonal buttresses and a ribbed spire set back behind an embattled parapet. The bell openings are of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil under a pointed head. The middle stage features a central trefoiled niche flanked by blank quatrefoils and slit openings on each side. The west window is of three trefoiled lights with Perpendicular tracery under a pointed head. A pointed west doorway with a gabled hood was inserted in 1839. Two pointed one-light windows, restored in the 19th century, are in the south wall of the nave. Above the porch is a window of two trefoiled lights. The 1925 timber-framed porch replaces an earlier version. To the left of the 19th-century inner doorway are the jambs and part of an arch of a 12th-century doorway, with zig-zag ornament. The south chapel has diagonal buttresses and a low-pitched gable. Its south window is of four trefoiled lights with 19th-century tracery; its east window is of three trefoiled lights with early 15th-century tracery. The north aisle has two 19th-century windows of two trefoiled lights under a flat head, with a buttress between them. The three clerestory windows are similar. On the south side of the chancel are two chamfered lancet windows, while on the north side are two restored 19th-century windows, the eastern one having two pointed lights under a pointed head. The early 14th-century east window is of two trefoiled lights under a pointed head.

Inside, the tall, pointed tower arch is chamfered in two orders. The four-bay arcade has pointed arches, chamfered in two orders, springing from piers of quatrefoil plan. The nave roof is 19th-century, with trusses having curved braces to collars and V-struts above. The round chancel arch has an outer billet moulding and angle shafts with scalloped capitals and abaci with carved decoration. The 15th-century font has been re-tooled, is octagonal, and bears a shield of arms on each face. The south windows contain some reset 17th-century shields of arms.