Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II* parish church, believed to have originally served as a chapel for a nearby college at College Farm. It dates back to the medieval period and was restored in 1873. The church consists of a nave, chancel, south porch, and north vestry, with a former west tower and north chapel that are no longer present. The structure is primarily built of flint rubble, with the chancel being plastered and featuring stone dressings. The nave walls have been raised using red brick, and various brick repairs have been made, including the infilling of the arch leading to the north chapel. There are some substantial 19th-century brick buttresses supporting the nave, and the roofs are slated.

The nave windows and doorways are in the Perpendicular style, although the underlying fabric is older. There are three-light windows, with one on the north side and two on the south, all of which have been largely renewed. The medieval doors are preserved in both doorways, with the south door featuring a sanctuary knocker. The 18th-century brick porch has a three-centre arched entrance with raised springers and a stone key. At the southeast corner of the nave, part of the rood stair is visible. The early 14th-century chancel includes a Priest's doorway from the same period, and its windows are also in the Perpendicular style, with the two on the south being square-headed. The east window is a three-light design from the 20th century.

Inside, the nave boasts a fine late 15th-century seven-bay roof with long arched braces that meet at the center, and east-west bracing below the ridge, although the pendants are missing. The moulded cornice on the south side has not survived. The chancel roof dates from around 1873, and the chancel arch is wide and unmoulded. The blocked arch to the chapel can be found in the north wall of the nave. There is a plain octagonal font dated 1876, and the chancel stalls include six medieval misere seats and some 15th-century poppyhead bench-ends, while the rest of the furnishings were renewed in 1873.

In a wall recess in the northeast nave, there is a notable late 13th-century recumbent stone effigy of a lady, likely a member of the Bedingfield family, which is said to have originated from the chapel. Below the west nave window, there is an inscribed tablet from the 13th century. A 16th-century brass commemorating a member of the Bedingfield family has been removed. Above the chancel arch, there are the good Arms of Charles I, dated 1637.