Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is an Anglican parish church located in Kingscote Village. It has early English origins, with a tower from the Perpendicular period. The church was completely restored in 1851 by the architect S.S. Teulon. It features random coursed stone, a coursed stone transept from the 19th century, and an ashlar west tower. The roof is made of stone slate, with chamfered stone eaves on the nave and chancel, and coped gable ends that include saddlestones and cross finials.

The church consists of a west tower, a nave with a north porch, a transept, and a chancel with a north vestry. The tower has three stages, a plinth, and stringcourses, with stepped angle buttresses reaching up to the second stage. There is a square stair vice on the north side, an embattled parapet with a turret above the stair vice, and ogee-headed perforated belfry lights at the top stage. The west face features a two-light pointed arch window above a segmental pointed arch window with a square hoodmould. The north porch is plain gabled, while the transept and lower vestry have blind arcading at the parapet, complemented by crocketed corner pinnacles on the shallow gable of the transept. The nave has 19th-century two-light windows, and the east side has a three-light window with rerearch.

Inside, the church retains plain double chamfered arches for the chancel and tower, as well as a north doorway. The roof from the 19th century has rafter construction with cross-braced principals, and there is a west gallery featuring blind arcading and 19th-century fittings. The chancel screen is inscribed "Anthony Kingscote 1615," and the chancel contains several fine wall monuments dedicated to the Kingscote family.