St John The Baptist

Red tile roof.

Lower stages C13, upper stage C14 with small spire.

Two-light C13 pointed window with cinquefoil-headed lights over C19 plank door, west door within shouldered surround.

Two 3-light C19 pointed windows with reticulated tracery and stopped hoods with carved stops (similar to those in nave arcade) flanking late C19 porch.

C19 hoodmould with large C14 head stops.

Interior: 4-bay nave arcade with octagonal piers with corbel heads (mostly men with hair curled in the fashion of the C14).

C14 Decorated piscina on south wall of south aisle.

Double-chamfered C15 pointed arch to tower from nave.

Remodelled C12 stilted chancel arch of 2 orders with intersecting zig-zag and grotesque face forming keystone, under a double billet moulding.

Engaged jamb shafts with scalloped capitals one with shallowly carved face.

C14 Decorated aumbry divided into 2 unequal compartments with pointed openings, blind tracery decorating stone surround above right of altar.

C14 wagon roof in south aisle.

C19 red tile floor to nave and south aisle, C19 red and brown tiling and decorative encaustic tiling in chancel, small patch of decorated medieval tiling in north-east corner of chancel.

C13 or early C14 octagonal font formed from single stone block on circular base towards west end of south aisle.

Late C19 wooden pews some incorporating C15 carved panels.

Cl9 oak pulpit.

Late C19 wood lectern.

Drum in south-east corner of aisle with Royal Arms of 1817.

Monuments

C19 ledger right of altar, another left to Margaret Buckle, died 1675 with heraldic shield.

Monuments on east wall of south aisle, upper left, white on grey marble monument to William White, died 1807

white marble monument with heraldic shield at top to Mary Helme (nee Fisher) dated 1629.

Fine slatestone monument right of window to Thomas and Elizabeth White of Hillend, died 1771, band of fluted decoration at top, swan-necked pediment above, gilded decoration.

Two white on grey marble monuments to members of the Buckle family right of chancel arch.

Three C19 marble monuments on south wall of chancel.

Glass: fragments of reused medieval window glass in east windows of chancel and south aisle. and V.C.H., Worcestershire, Vol. VI, pp 53-56. ____