Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a church built between 1799 and 1800 by John Fidel of Farringdon, with a remodel in 1882 by Edwin Dolby of Abingdon. It features coursed and dressed limestone on an ashlar plinth, with rusticated quoins and a hipped Welsh-slate roof. The church has a nave with an apse and two-bay side walls, including a south chapel, which have blind rusticated round arches with inner round-arched leaded casements. The east gable wall is pedimented and includes an apse with similar surrounds to a stained glass window. The west end is also pedimented and has a round-arched entry with paired Norman-style windows by Dolby above a Doric entablature, framing plain double-leaf doors. A fine bell cupola features oak Doric columns that divide louvred sides and support a lead roof topped with a wrought-iron weathervane.

Inside, there are late 19th-century benches and a pulpit, along with late 18th-century and early 19th-century wall tablets, including a Latin memorial tablet to George Rainsbee, who died in 1624. The south chapel contains wall tablets to John Blandy, who died in 1844, and to John Blandy, who died in 1762, the latter of which features a marble obelisk with two portrait medallions flanked by putti, standing on an entablature. There is also a fine monument to Edmund Fettiplace, who died in 1710, which has a tasselled canopy over folding drapery with urns, set above an inscription tablet with an achievement and a winged putto at the base. The plan and elevations from 1799 show the apse, which is attributed to Dolby.