Church Of St John Baptist

The Church of St John Baptist is a parish church built in 1838 by R D Gould. It is constructed from roughly dressed, coursed stone rubble and features a slate roof with coped gable ends. The church has an aisleless nave and a shallow, narrower sanctuary at the east end. There are entrances at the west end and on the north side, and the building is designed in an Early English style.

Gabletted angle buttresses are present at the east and west ends of the nave and at the east end of the chancel. Intermediate buttresses are located between the five bays of lancets on the north and south sides, each with pointed arched hoodmoulds that have unusual hourglass-shaped label stops. The east and west ends feature stepped triple lancets with moulded surrounds and nook shafts. The west doorway is steeply pointed and has a heavily moulded surround, leading to a plank door with two leaves and strap hinges.

The canted north porch has a hipped slate roof, a pointed arched doorway, and a lancet on the north-west side. Inside, the church has painted plastered walls and a segmental pointed arched ceiling. The 19th-century furnishings are entirely intact and include nave seating with trefoil pieced bench ends, a stone reredos with four blind pointed arched panels featuring painted texts, a wooden altar table with an open traceried front, a polygonal pulpit on a stone base, altar rails, a timber entrance lobby, and a font with an octagonal bowl supported on a slender stem and a modest screen with a crenellated headrail, peaked at the centre, supported on chamfered timber posts. Most windows, except for one on the south side, two on the north side, and the west window, have diamond leaded coloured glass. There is also a small stained glass window at the east end of the north aisle dedicated to Fanny Morgan, who died in 1939.