Architectural Features
Tower forming porch on north west angle, circa 1300 buttressed and of two stages, with embattled parapet and paired trefoiled lights to bell chamber.
Small doorway to aisle with squared hood mould and two memorial tablets above it, one 1755, the inscription plate flanked by Corinthian pilasters adorned with floral motifs and capped by a scrolly broken pediment.
Parapet with gargoyles.
Various C18 wall memorial tablets on north and east walls of aisle.
Most other fittings are of a piece with these, including pews and pulpit.
The font is also Victorian, octagonal basin with simple geometric motif on each side, supported on a chamfered squared base.
Victorian stained glass of particular quality in the west window with scenes from the life of St. John the Baptist, by Heaton, Butler and Bayne .
The Church represents a fragment of the Augustinian Priory founded by Robert Grimbald sometime before 1161.