Parish Church Of St John The Baptist

The parish church of St John the Baptist largely dates to an 1865 rebuilding, although it retains a 15th-century tower, porches, and fragments from the 11th century. The building is constructed of flint with stone dressings, and has a thatch and lead roof. It comprises a west tower, a north porch, a south aisle, a south porch, a nave, a chancel, and a south vestry.

The four-stage west tower features diagonal buttresses and a flushwork base course. A Perpendicular west door is decorated with fauna in the spandrels, with flushwork panels on either side and a frieze above. The tower has a 3-light west window with Perpendicular tracery, flanked by niches, and pierced by a traceried square sound hole with a hood mould. Belfry openings are 2-light with Perpendicular tracery, and the top is finished with a battle-mented flushwork parapet.

The north porch has diagonal buttresses, and a Perpendicular north doorway with attached shafts and spandrel panels. A niche above the doorway contains a pedestal and a nodding ogee canopy. There are 2-light north and east windows with rectangular hood moulds and label stops, and a rebuilt parapet gable. The south porch also has diagonal buttresses, a south entrance, and a parapet gable, with a 19th-century lean-to on the west side linked to the aisle.

The 5-bay south aisle has four 19th-century 2-light windows and stepped buttresses. The north nave wall contains Roman tile fragments and two double-splayed circular windows under the eaves, with a 19th-century circular window inserted below them. Four further 2-light windows are positioned along the north side, and the east end features a 3-light east window with intersecting tracery. Gable kneelers include carved stone grotesque heads, and there is evidence that the east parapet has been heightened.

The interior is largely 19th century. A double, traceried 15th-century door leads to the tower, and the tower arch has compound mouldings and attached shafts. A late 16th-century ringing gallery has tapered twisted balusters. The 14th-century, 4-bay south arcade has quatrefoil piers with fillets and diagonally positioned shafts. A rood loft staircase is located in the north nave wall. A piscina with an ogee arch is set into the south aisle wall, and a 13th-century lancet window is present in the south chancel wall. A restored screen, based on 15th-century fragments, is incorporated within the space. Triple sedilia feature an arcade of cusped arches. A Norman font is square, with a blind arcade on five columns. Memorials include a brick wall monument dated 1738, dedicated to Jessop Chamberlayn and his wife, a monument to John Chapman who died in 1718, inscribed on a tablet between Corinthian columns and flanked by putti topped with an urn, and other 18th-century monuments to H. Palmer and Henry Smith.