Parish Church Of St John The Baptist

The Parish Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II* listed building located in Batheaston. This church dates back to the 12th century and was remodeled in the late 15th century. The west tower and nave were rebuilt in the mid-19th century, while the north aisle was added around 1834 by John Pinch, the Younger of Bath. F. Preedy restored the church, adding the south aisle and south porch between 1866 and 1868, and the chancel around 1860. The structure is built of coursed squared rubble with a Cotswold stone slate roof on the chancel and slate roofs elsewhere.

The west tower features four stages with a pierced embattled parapet, setback buttresses, and a projecting octagonal stair turret at the southeast that ends in a spirelet. It has pointed perpendicular two-light windows with cusped heads, and the east side includes a canopied niche with a figure, likely St. John. The south aisle's wall mirrors the original design of the nave's south wall, which was relocated and rebuilt by Preedy. It features a variety of perpendicular windows and a now-obsolete protrusion for a rood stair. The south porch was also moved and rebuilt in a facsimile by Preedy, incorporating medieval work, and has a panelled perpendicular parapet along with a heavily moulded depressed ogee hood on the south door adorned with fleurons in hollow chamfer.

The chancel, completed in 1860, has a geometric east window, and a sanctus bell cote is located on the east gable of the nave. Inside, the church has a five-bay nave with a perpendicular arcade, likely from 1834 on the north side and 1868 on the south. The chancel has two bays. There are two fonts: one is octagonal on a baluster stem dating from around 1700-1715, and the other is from 1869. The reredos was added in 1878, and there is an 18th-century wall tablet on the south chancel wall.