Church of St John the Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a church largely of the 13th and 14th centuries, restored in 1869 by H Currey. It is constructed of coursed, squared gritstone to the chancel and tower, and of coursed limestone with gritstone dressings to the remainder, with plain tile and slate to the chancel roof and slate to the north aisle roof. Lead covers other roof areas.

The church consists of an embattled western tower with a projecting north-west stair turret, a nave with a lower north aisle, a south porch, a south transept, and an embattled two-bay chancel. The low, two-stage tower has setback, stepped buttresses to three sides, a string course, and twin, cusped-headed bell openings with a square hood on each side, louvred with stone slates. An overhanging, embattled parapet sits above, topped by a recessed, octagonal stone spire with twin, louvred lucarnes to four sides.

The north nave aisle has two 19th-century cusped lancets. A blank clerestory wall is topped with an embattled parapet. The north chancel wall features a stepped plinth and gabletted buttresses to the west side, alongside a pair of 14th-century two-light, cusped-headed windows with pierced spandrels, set beneath a flat hood with run-out stops. A moulded string-course and embattled parapet run above. The south chancel wall is similar, with an additional pointed doorcase. Windows are 19th-century copies, and the east window is a 19th-century panel tracery design with a dripmould, flanked by diagonal, gabletted buttresses.

The south transept has a Y-tracery window to the east and triple stepped lancets to the south, both dating from around 1300. To the west is a 19th-century south porch. Cusped lancet windows are set on either side of it. Above are further cusped-headed windows.

Inside, a three-bay south arcade dating from around 1200 features octagonal columns with moulded capitals and double, chamfered, semi-circular arches. A similar four-bay north arcade dates from around 1300, with the arches now pointed. A pointed arch was added to the south arcade into the south transept around 1300. A blocked, pointed, chamfered tower arch is present, along with a Perpendicular chancel arch with a continuously moulded soffit. Pilasters and capitals are set to the sides. There are remains of a Perpendicular stone rood screen, with a blank cusped ogee arcade with pierced quatrefoils above, complemented by an early 20th-century wooden screen of similar style. In the chancel, a cusped ogee piscina is located to the west and a double cusped ogee sedilla under a square hood to the east, both with mid-17th-century quatrefoil patterns on the seats.

Various wall memorials are present, including a fine white marble memorial of 1683 for Georgius Dale, and a similar memorial to the Swan family of 1740. The east window contains stained glass from 1880 by Jones and Wallis. A cusped, trefoil piscina is set into the north nave aisle east wall. The octagonal Perpendicular font has a moulded base and cusped decorated panels. Painted charity plaques date from 1740 and 1821.