Church of Saint John the Baptist

The Church of Saint John the Baptist is a parish church largely dating to the mid-15th century, with remaining elements from the late 12th century and a restoration around 1870. The building is constructed of coursed, squared limestone with ashlar and gritstone dressings, covered by graduated Westmorland slate and lead roofs. It comprises a four-bay nave with a central tower, aisles extending beyond the line of former transepts, a clerestory, a porch at the west end of the south aisle, and a three-bay chancel with a north vestry.

The porch features an elaborate 18th-century wrought-iron fanlight over the outer arch, a 19th-century board door set within a 15th-century doorway, stepped buttresses, and gable coping. The south aisle of the nave has four three-light Perpendicular windows with intersecting tracery. A 19th-century clerestory was added with three-light windows, and prominent stepped buttresses rise to large crocketed finials, also restored in the 19th century. The north aisle also has Perpendicular-style three-light windows. The chancel has two three-light Perpendicular windows on its south side, a two-light and a three-light plate tracery window to the north, and an east window of five-lights with restored reticulated tracery. Gable copings and cross-finials adorn the nave and chancel roofs.

The tower has four stages above the former crossing, with traces of the former transepts' roofline visible at the second stage. The third stage has clasping buttresses and a fiber-glass replica of an 18th-century clock face with a motto: 'Redeeming the Time'. The top stage features paired trefoil-headed windows with hoodmoulds, shallow diagonal buttresses, ashlar coping, and corner pinnacles. A slender, lead-covered spire, believed to be from the early 16th century, tops the tower.

Inside, the nave arcades have tall, octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. Triple-chamfered arches lead from the crossing to the north and south aisles. The arch in the west side of the south aisle chapel (St Edmund's) displays Early English nail-head and dog-tooth decoration, largely renewed. This chapel includes crocketed and ogee-headed sedilia, a piscina, a tomb recess or Easter sepulchre, and a statue niche. The Slingsby chapel at the east end of the north aisle contains fine 17th-century and later family memorials. The chancel interior was restored in the 19th century, including the roof. A fine 15th-century octagonal font with shields is complemented by an elaborately carved font cover dating from around 1700.