St John The Baptist

Norman and Decorated styles.

C13 lancet at west end

north elevation also has C13 lancet

two restored C14 windows of two lights with hoodmoulds at eastern end

South aisle: c1200, widened in C14

two C13 lancets at eastern end of south elevation

Blount Chapel: C16

Tower separated from nave by late C16 timber-framed partition with rendered infill

C17 minstrels gallery above door lintel level with small door to north side.

elaborately carved reredos of probable C17 date.

Font is c1200 and has a circular bowl and stem.

C19 three-sided pulpit.

South aisle has C14 piscina with cusped ogee-arched head

also C14 tomb recess with a crocketted and finialed ogee-arched head, slender pinnacled buttresses at each side and containing a skeleton.

Memorials: chancel has a late C13 recumbent effigy of a knight, a large chest tomb with strapwork panels (on which the skeleton is reported to have been originally situated)

an early C16 brass to John Blount and his wife with figures about three feet long

Nave has two simple mid C18 wall memorials.

also an early C19 urn relief memorial with tree and medallion detail to Watkins family and two mid C19 memorials at west end of aisle.

Glass: east window has a fine early C14 panel of the Crucifixion.

Glass elsewhere is early C20.

This medieval church retains several features of particular interest including its bell-tower framework, minstrels gallery and partition, tomb recess, several good memorials and its C14 glass.