St John The Baptist

Roughly coursed gritstone rubble, machine tile roofs.

Tower: probably C12

north wall also has square-headed blocked doorway to chancel and an infilled round-arched doorway (probably C12), cut by western of two C19 windows

C14 east window of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoil and mouchettes above

gabled south porch with round-arched doorway probably C17.

Interior: round-arched single-chamfered south doorway has nail- studded plank and muntin door (probably C17)

main feature is late C14 arch-braced collar beam roof, the 3 eastern trusses (to chancel) with cusped struts from collars forming quatrefoils, double purlins and cusped windbraces

fine carved C17 pulpit has tester with pendant knobs, reading desk below made up of contemporary panels

hexagonal font 1875.

The church is said to have been a dependent chapelry of Cound (q.v. under Church of St. Peter, Cound C.P.) in the medieval period and is stituated in an originally oval-shaped churchyard (q.v. under churchyard wall), suggestive of an early origin.