St John The Baptist And St Alkmund

Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and tile roofs.

C14 west tower, C16 nave

aisles, C12 chancel.

West tower: four stages with diagonal buttresses and crenellated parapet, Ground stage has a tall C14 west door under a two-centred arch of three chamfered orders.

South aisle: three bays with C17 porch in west bay which has a cambered tie beam to front gable.

Clerestory above has three windows, each of two trefoiled lights, they are C14, re-set in C16.

North aisle: three windows, C16, each of two cinquefoiled lights under a square head: Clerestory windows similar to those on south side.

Chancel: C12, extended C14, three windows in south wall, restored C13 window of two trefoiled lights to west, C14 window of two cinquefoiled lights, with between a C12 semicircular headed window with tufa dressings.

North wall has a matching C12 window and a late C19 doorway.

East window late C14, restored C19, of two cinquefoiled lights with a quatrefoil under a two-centred head and a moulded label.

INTERIOR: rubble segmental vault under tower leads to C15 doorway with moulded jambs

two-centred head: Nave has a three-bay arcade to each aisle, the C16 arches are segmental-pointed of two chamfered orders.

The re-set C12 piers are square with shafted angles, attached half-piers to responds and moulded Plinths.

Fittings: early C16 rood screen between chancel and nave has a central doorway flanked by three bays each side: These have linen-fold lower panels and open upper panels with trefoiled and sub-cusped heads, two similar heads to doorway: Enriched middle rail and moulded and shafted posts from which springs the vaulted soffit of loft.

Wall monument on north wall of chancel to Robert Weever, died 1728, with fluted Doric pilasters and entablature.

Alabaster floor slab to John Lingen, died 1506

Pulpit in north-east corner of nave is C17 and has three panelled sides in three ranges, middle range arcaded.