Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church largely dating to the 13th and 14th centuries, with late 11th-century origins, and underwent restoration in 1859 and 1885. The exterior is constructed of roughly squared random rubble with ashlar dressings, except for the south aisle which is of coursed squared stone, all covered by a tiled roof. The timber-framed north porch has rendered panels on a stone plinth and a stone-slate roof.

The north facade features a 19th-century buttress and a gabled porch with 2-panel high framing, scalloped bargeboards, and an iron cross on the ridge. Inside the porch is a collar truss with curved braces, clasped purlins, hatpegs, and a boarded door with a semi-circular tympanum featuring an Agnus Dei and dummy voussoirs. To the left of the porch is a round-headed lancet, followed by paired lancets with trefoil heads. The chancel has a trefoil-headed lancet on the right and paired 1885 lancets with trefoil heads on the left. The east end features twin lancets with trefoil heads. Inside, a wide, likely 19th-century chancel arch separates the nave from the chancel. A three-bay arcade with circular pillars, moulded caps, and bases divides the nave and south aisle. The nave roof utilizes arch-bracing and collar purlins. A piscina is located in the chancel, and north and south windows at the east end have low sills. A facetted, panelled ceiling caps the interior. The pulpit is open, with a timber design, trefoil heads, clustered columns and a low stone base supporting a matching communion rail. An octagonal stone font on a stem with quatrefoils to the bowl is also present. Remaining medieval glass can be found in one south aisle window. Various wall monuments from the 17th to the second quarter of the 19th centuries are also within the church. The bellcote on the west wall, likely built in 1859, sits above two central projections linked by an arch. The chancel was restored in 1885. The church forms a group with Preston Court.