Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a church. It was largely rebuilt after a fire in 1680, using old materials. The tower was constructed in 1838 by Robert Ebbels, while the chancel, nave, and north aisle date from 1874, designed by Ewan Christian. The south wall and porch are of 17th-century brown brick, while the tower exhibits red and blue brick with stone quoins on its south side, set on a stone plinth. The rest of the church uses red and blue brick in a diaper pattern and banded courses. The nave, chancel, and north aisle all have plain tiled roofs with ridge cresting.

The church has an aisled nave, a tower to the west, and a porch on the south side. It also has a chancel to the east, with a chapel to the south and a vestry to the north.

The square tower features diagonal offset buttresses and a battlemented parapet. The top stage has louvred arched openings with a clock in an apron panel on the west face. One two-light trefoil-head window on the south face is blocked. Reused stone windows from the 15th and 16th centuries are present, along with later 19th-century windows, some two-light in a Decorated style and others three-light in a Perpendicular style. A ribbed and studded door in a moulded wood frame, under a gauged brick head, is found in the south porch. Arched double doors lead to the west.

Inside, the three-bay nave arcades stand on round stone piers with lighter coloured stone plinths and moulded capitals. Stone human head stops are present on the billeted hood mouldings of the arches. The brick chancel arch has a dogtooth decorative band. A double arched opening with a billeted hood moulding is visible on the south chancel wall. An early 20th-century marble and alabaster mosaic reredos, along with 19th-century fittings, decorate the interior. A 17th-century pulpit is also present, alongside a late 19th-century octagonal stone font with panelled sides on a centre stem and angle columns.

Monuments include a monument to Sage and Robert Herrington, who died in 1733 and 1757 respectively, situated on the east wall of the south chapel. This is a aedicular monument with a coloured stone panel within flanking pilasters, beneath a swan-neck pediment and shell crest, and a cartouche in the apron below. Another monument, an oval wall plate to Thomas Tilbury, who died in 1716, is also located on the east wall of the south chapel. It is made of grey stone, with a lighter inscription panel on a ribbon festoon.