Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a small parish church, originally built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, which underwent significant rebuilding by Slater and Carpenter between 1868 and 1871. The church features a mix of old and new elements, including a 15th-century west tower. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and has a stone tile roof. The nave consists of four and a half bays, supported by low buttresses and small lancet windows, except for a square-headed east window on the east side.

The south doorway is a Norman feature of late type, showcasing one order of chevron clasping roll and a label with saltire crosses, along with a billet impost and a headstone corbel above; it also has a projecting gabled porch. The north doorway, which has been reset, is round-headed with early 15th-century mouldings. The chancel has two bays with a square end, featuring perpendicular square-headed 2-light tracery windows and a blocked priest's door. The east window is also perpendicular, and there is a vestry to the north that includes a tall chimney.

The west tower is two stages high and embattled, standing on a moulded plinth with diagonal buttresses and corner gargoyles. The 15th-century west door is adorned with a drip and rosettes in the spandrels. Inside, the church has 19th-century seating and several monuments to the Freke family. There is a rood stair located at the north-east corner of the nave, and the reredos features scenes painted on tin within tracery panels. A stone effigy, likely from the 14th century, depicts a woman flanked by mitred heads. In the tower, there is a large wall monument to Thomas Pile from 1754, supported by three black Corinthian columns that carry fragments of a segmental pediment, with an urn in the center and cherub heads in panels between.