Church of St John The Baptist.

Older parts of church in blue lias with Dundry stone dressings; Victorian extensions and refacing in Swelldon stone with bathstone dressings. Mainly Perpendicular tracery. Nave of 5 bays, chancel, west tower (tower porch), double aisles to N and S, S porch, shallow N porch. Tower of 4 stages with stepped diagonal buttresses; low ground floor stage is porch open on 3 sides, doorways with multi-moulded arches; rib vault to porch. Above entrance, W side has 5-light Perpendicular window; above this, in middle stage, tall window with pierced diaper and Perpendicular 2-light head; above this, bell stage has 2-lighr window with pierced stonework. Tower crowned by magnificent open work arcaded and battlemented parapet with openwork corner pinnacles and small gargoyles. Chancel has clerestorey; polygonal turret in angle with N chapel; 5-light Perpendicular E window. South West vestry with tall chimneys. South side has 3 and 4 light square-headed windows with frieze of flowers and animals over; blocked doorway in angle with aisles.

Nave has Perpendicular arcade with lozenge-shaped piers and 2-centred arches. Lower arcades to Victorian outer aisles. High and wide chancel arch. Four bay chancel with clerestorey. Chancel roof on Victorian head-corbels. Chancel S arcade with circular shafts (circa 1300?), N arcade similar to nave; reredos by Kempson & Fowler has sculpture by Goscombe John (1891). To N of chancel, Herbert chapel with wooden screen (part C16, part C17. Herbert Monument (early C17) with effigies of knight and lawyer, and relief of 4 cherubs. Reredos in S chapel by Comper (early C20). Tower arch, stone steps up to platform over porch; C19 iron railings. The church retains good C19 stained glass including N outer aisle windows by Morris & Co (apostles by Morris, Abraham & Noah by Ford Madox Brown, Melchisedek by Burne-Jones). Other glass by Dixon, and Belham & Co (to designs of JP Seddon). Several Neoclassical tablets relocated to tower. Uncompromising 2-storey concrete vestry inserted in S aisle.