Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church built as a chapel of ease between 1849 and 1850 by G. Fowler Jones, likely funded by the 6th Earl Cowper of Panshanger. It was extended in 1890. The church is constructed of brick with knapped flint facing and stone dressing, topped with slate roofs, and is designed in the Gothic Revival style.

Originally, it was a simple rectangular structure with a four-bay nave and a one-bay chancel. The eastern extension added one bay, which includes an organ bay and vestry to the north, a mission room to the south, and a porch to the west. The west gabled porch features leaded lights in a timber frame set on a flint and stone base, along with a ridge cross. The west wall has two tall lancets topped with an upper hexafoil light, and there are buttresses at both the north and south ends. The gable parapet is stone-coped, and there is a sanctus bellcote on the ridge with a cusped bell opening and a ridge cross on the gabled head.

The nave walls contain four lancets with trefoiled heads, and the original chancel bay has blocked openings. The mission room to the south has a separate roof. The west gable end features a pointed arched entrance, paired lancets with hood moulds, and a parapet with kneelers. The eastern end of the chancel has three trefoil-headed lancets, an upper hexafoil light, and a coped parapet with kneelers. The organ bay and vestry have a gable to the north, with two lancets that also have a hood mould and a coped parapet with kneelers.

Inside, the church has an arched braced collar beam roof. The later chancel bay is narrower and features a timber chancel arch on shaped brackets, a chamfered arch leading to the organ bay, and a pointed arched door to the vestry. The interior includes a panelled Gothic reredos, ornamental iron communion rails, and a timber pulpit with open Gothic panels adorned with iron ornament. The nave windows have simple patterned glass, while the east window features figures.