Church Of Saint John The Baptist

The Church of Saint John the Baptist is a parish church dating from the 15th century, constructed of coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings. It features a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower. The De Grey family mausoleum is located to the northeast, enclosing the north and east elevations of the chancel. The church has embattled parapets throughout.

The chancel includes a three-light east window and a round-headed archway on the north elevation that leads to the mausoleum. The south elevation, which is rendered and painted to match the mausoleum, has two three-light, three-centred windows flanking a pointed-arched doorway. The nave has three-bay pointed-arched arcades on both sides and a chancel arch in the same style. The clerestory features three two-light, four-centred windows on each side. There is a rood staircase at the southeast angle, forming an external octagonal stair turret. The north aisle's north elevation has two three-light, four-centred windows in the eastern bays and a blocked pointed-arch doorway in a square surround in the western bay, along with a single-light window on the west elevation. The south aisle's south elevation has two three-light early 16th-century windows with straight-sided heads and a three-light east window, as well as a pointed-arched south doorway. The south porch has a pointed arch within a square head, with tracery and shields in the spandrels that were reworked in the 20th century.

The west tower consists of three stages, with four-stage diagonal buttresses at the west angles and a semi-octagonal stair turret at the southeast angle. The bell-stage has two-light windows on each side, and the west elevation features a three-light window in the lower stage.

Inside, there is a variety of monuments. The chancel floor includes a brass memorial to Thomas Hill, receiver general to the Earls of Kent, who died in 1628 at the age of 101. On the north wall of the north aisle, there are two reset brasses: one commemorating Eleanor Conquest, who died in 1434, and the other for Elizabeth Waren, who died in 1544. The east wall of the north aisle has a brass inscription for Alice Hill, who died in 1594. Additionally, there are numerous 18th-century marble wall monuments and floor slabs. The nave and aisles retain their original roofs, which feature decorative bases and angels holding shields, and the nave has much of its original pewing. The north archway of the chancel leading to the mausoleum contains an 18th-century wrought iron gate with the Kent initials incorporated into the cresting.