Church Of St John The Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a church rebuilt in 1860, as indicated on the rainwater head, and has undergone restoration. It is constructed of sandstone rubble brought to courses, with freestone dressings and a graduated slate roof, designed in the Early English style.

The church features a nave with a west bellcote, a south porch, a chancel, and a north vestry. The five-bay nave includes buttresses and a string-course, with a gabled porch at the first bay that has a two-centred arched doorway and a coped gable topped with an apex cross. Each of the other bays contains a simple lancet window with tinted geometrical leaded glazing. The building has a moulded cast-iron gutter supported by stone brackets, along with two downspouts featuring moulded rainwater hoppers dated "1860". The west gable wall displays two lancet windows with a trefoil above them, and a two-stage bellcote housing two bells in the lower stage. The small one-bay chancel has a triple-lancet east window, and there is a lean-to vestry on the north side.

Inside, the church has an arch-braced queen-strut roof, a Gothic-style pulpit, and a Perpendicular-style choir screen at the east bay of the nave, along with a two-centred chancel arch. Various wall monuments, mostly from the 19th century, commemorate individuals such as Thomas Dawson of Dandragarth (died 1810), Edmund Dawson "generosi" of Dandragarth (died 1838), Rev. Edmund Dawson, vicar of Alford, Lincolnshire (died 1852), and Rev. James Dawson (died 1852) along with his son James Edmund Dawson, MD, MCRS, LSA, who died in Liverpool in 1880.