Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is an Anglican parish church built between 1843 and 1845 by John Pinch junior. It features squared and coursed lias stone with freestone dressings and a stone tile roof on the nave, while the chancel and aisles have 20th-century plain tile roofs. The church is designed in the Norman Revival style, replacing an earlier structure, and includes a nave, chancel, north and south aisles, and a west tower.

The nave has four bays with an embattled billet corbel table and pilaster buttresses, along with single light windows that have recessed arched surrounds. The chancel is distinguished by tall round-headed windows with blind round-headed arcading at their bases. The aisles are adorned with nook shafts and cushion capitals at the windows. The tower consists of four stages, featuring setback buttresses and a plain parapet. The west doorway, which has two orders with nook shafts and cushion capitals, is topped by a studded plank door with two leaves. Above the doorway is a reset medieval figure of God the Father holding a crucifixion. The second stage of the tower has a single light window, a nebule frieze above it, and a bell stage with traceried roundels and two-light openings. A bracketed cornice is located below the parapet.

Inside, the church has four bay nave arcades supported by circular piers with scalloped capitals. The nave features a hammerbeam roof, while the aisles have plank roofs and the chancel has an open rafter roof. There is a west gallery, and notable fittings include a Neo-Norman font and pulpit, as well as a reset eroded stone coat of arms above the west gallery. The church is decorated with late 19th-century stained glass throughout. In the chancel, there are monuments to the Mogg family, the earliest dating back to 1641 for Richard Mogg.