Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed building dating from around 1130, with some 16th-century windows and a vestry and porch added during restoration in 1890. The church is rendered with stone dressings and features tiled roofs, including a shingled bellcote on the west side, which has three louvred ogee lights on each face, a clock on the south side, and a pyramidal tiled roof topped with a weathervane. The architectural style is Romanesque, consisting of a nave, an apsidal chancel, a south porch, and a vestry.

The nave contains one 16th-century window on both the north and south sides, each with three arched lights beneath a square head. The south doorway is shafted and has one order with capitals carved with foliage and volutes, and a moulded arch decorated with chevron and other ornamentation. The north doorway is also shafted with one order, featuring carved capitals and a moulded arch with chevron ornament. The gabled south porch has planted timbers and two-light openings to the east, while the gabled vestry to the west has planted timbers and a three-light mullioned window on the south side.

In the chancel, there are 19th-century north and south windows with two round arched lights, a 16th-century south-east window with two round arched lights, and a 19th-century one-light round arched window on the east side. The interior features a vaulted chancel and a tall 12th-century chancel arch with roll moulding, two orders, and capitals carved with foliage and grotesques. An earlier window is revealed in the wall to the south, and there is a 19th-century piscina in the south-east corner. The nave has a 19th-century arch-braced roof.

Furnishings include a 17th-century communion rail and a 17th-century communion table at the west end of the nave, with other fittings from the 19th century. Monuments within the church include a tablet to Christopher Griffith from 1776 by J Wilton, depicting a large female figure bending over an urn with a portrait medallion, and a tablet to Mrs Loftus Brightwell from 1711, featuring putti on either side and two Ionic columns supporting a broken back flat pediment with a coat of arms above. There are also other 18th-century and early 19th-century wall tablets. This church is significant for its 12th-century architecture and the minimal later additions.