St John The Baptist

Exterior: tall west tower of 3 stages with diagonal buttresses and embattled parapet with carved gargoyle waterspouts.

The south aisle parapet is all Hams tone ashlar and the gargoyle waterspouts are carved as characatured people.

The low pitch roof of the porch is C15 in style but probably a C19 replacement with moulded ribs and carved oak bosses.

There is a moulded eaves cornice here interrupted by carved gargoyle waterspouts and other grotesque carvings.

In the centre of the aisle is a Tudor arch doorway with carved foliate spandrels and hoodmould with carved human head label stops.

Each side are 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmouls with carved human head label stops. (There is another in the west end).

The ends of each transept contains a 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmoulds but only the northern window has carved human head label stops.

The vestry is Tudor Gothic in style.

Interior: the nave and south transept have repaired open wagon roofs with moulded ribs and purlins and replacement carved oak bosses.

The north transept has a low pitch roof of moulded intersecting beams with replacement carved oak bosses, and the lean-to aisle roofs are similar.

At the east end of the each aisle is an arch springing from corbels carved as an angels.

The floor is mainly parquet blocks but there are C19 encaustic tiles in the sanctuary.

Large and ornate C19 carved oak reredos in Gothic style featuring a painted triptych.

2 small prayer desks are in the same style but incorporate high quality C16 carved bench ends featuring representations of St John the Baptist, St James, St Peter and the Virgin and Child.

The Gothic style lectern is said to be made up of pieces from an earlier pulpit and it has linenfold panels.

Good C15 Hamstone font has an octagonal bowl with quatrefoil panels enriched with fourleaf motifs, there are badges and rosettes around the base and the plinth and stem have trefoil-headed panels.

Good late C19 hanging lamp holders throughout the church, the best one is them brass one in the chancel.

A C17 oak table is used as an altar in the south transept and there is a probably C17 oak chest in the north transept.

The only memorials are a couple of C20 ones in the chancel.

The tracery of the north transept end window includes some good C15 stained glass including complete figures.

More C15 glass fragments have been assembled in the north squint window to the chancel.

Some C19 stained glass in the south aisle.