Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a church largely of the late 12th century, with alterations and additions made in the 13th and 14th centuries. Further windows were added in the 15th century, and the roof was restored in 1922. The building is constructed of ironstone ashlar and squared, coursed ironstone with lead roofs. It comprises a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower.

The chancel features a 4-light Perpendicular east window, and two south windows with trefoiled lancets. A priest's doorway has an ogee head and plank door. The south aisle has three trefoiled lancet windows, and the nave has one. The Perpendicular clerestory has four 2-light windows, one of which is renewed. The south porch has a pointed arch doorway with a hood mould and label stops, and a plank door. Diagonal buttresses support the south porch and aisle, and the chancel, nave, and south aisle are topped with parapets.

The west tower has three stages and a pointed arch doorway with a plank door. It also features a 3-light Perpendicular window and a 2-light louvred window to the bell stage, along with string courses and a parapet. A clock is set into the south face, and diagonal buttresses are present.

The north aisle includes a pointed arch doorway, Perpendicular and ogee-headed 2-light windows and four 2-light Perpendicular clerestory windows. External wall memorials are present on the east side of the chancel, dated 1702, 1717, and 1817. A scratch dial is set into the wall of the south aisle.

Inside, the chancel has an arched, braced roof. A blocked arch in the north wall indicates the former location of a 14th-century chapel. A south wall piscina is ogee headed and Decorated. The nave has an arched, braced roof. The north arcade consists of four 12th-century bays with additional 14th-century bays, featuring round piers with scalloped capitals. The south arcade is of two bays and Decorated style, with two octagonal piers. There is a small Decorated piscina. Fragments of a 14th-century stone reredos remain in the chancel and north aisle. A 12th-century circular font has a blind arcade of intersecting arches above a double band of table moulding, with a border of stylized leaves. A fragment of a lower part of a 15th-century screen with traceried panels remains in the south aisle. The tower arch is screened by an early 17th-century screen with pierced balusters. Late 14th-century wall paintings depict a Last Judgement or Doom above the chancel arch, a Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John, a Pieta, and St George and the dragon. Pieces of medieval stained glass are within the south window.