Parish Church Of St John The Baptist And St Pandionia

The Parish Church of St John the Baptist and St Pandionia is a Grade II* listed building located in Eltisley. The church features a nave and aisles dating from around 1200, with a north chapel added and the chancel rebuilt or extended in the 13th century. The chancel was replaced in white brick around 1840, and the clerestorey was remodeled with the addition of a tower and spire in the 15th century. The chancel and north chapel were rebuilt around 1840, with restoration work carried out between 1875 and 1879. The church's walls are constructed from pebble rubble with limestone and clunch dressings, along with 19th-century white brick. The roofs are made of lead and slate.

On the south elevation, the tower consists of three stages with diagonal buttresses and is plastered up to the second stage, featuring an embattled parapet. The belfry window has restored Y-tracery, and the octagonal spire is adorned with crocketed gablets at the spire lights. A clock from the 18th century was placed in the tower in 1893, with its weights housed in an external wooden box. The nave roof includes a bell turret and a cross finial on the parapet gable, while there are three 19th-century two-light clerestorey windows and two three-light aisle windows. A 19th-century porch leads to the original south doorway, which features dogtooth ornamentation and shafted jambs with moulded caps and bases.

Inside, the nave arcades consist of three bays with some restoration. The two-centred arches are of a single chamfered order with chamfered labels, supported by circular piers with stiff-leaf and water-leaf carved capitals. The chancel arch from the 13th century has two chamfered orders with moulded labels and mask stops. The font, dating from the 13th century, has an octagonal bowl and a carved 17th-century pyramidal cover. In the north chapel, there is a 14th-century tomb recess with a moulded and crocketed label, featuring a lion and woman's heads, along with two mutilated 13th-century figures: a robed figure and a knight in chain mail. Further monuments and floor slabs can be found as noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments.