St John The Baptist

Lead sheet roof coverings to nave and spire, plain tile work to chancel and porch

There is a rectangular chancel of three bays with two perpendicular windows to its south wall, one in a C15 opening

The Lady Chapel to the north of the chancel has two, wide, C15 traceried windows and a C15 west doorway

INTERIOR: The C14 tower arch is of three chamfered orders, only the innermost having caps and bases to jambs.There is a graffito of a postmill on the north jamb

The nave has a six-bay, C15 arch-braced king-post roof of low pitch

On the north wall of the nave is a large, C15 polychrome mural of St

Opposite hangs a painting of the Royal Arms purchased in 1712

In the north-east corner are the openings from the external turret enclosing the rood stair into the nave, together with a C14 piscina and a fine grey Derbyshire, crinoidal limestone, font of 1739 with a gadrooned bowl on a baluster stem and octagonal base

The doorway to the south porch has a fine C15 carved oak door with panelling and embattled rail

Two hatchments of the Soames family are set on either side of the early C14 chancel arch

A C14 piscina and sedilia under a moulded arch are set within the south wall, whilst the north wall has a C15 arcaded opening into the Lady Chapel, now infilled with a late C20 glazed timber screen and doors

The chapel has a cinquefoil cusped opening into the nave with C14 jambs but a C19 head, and a C15 piscina in the south wall

The roof timbers also appear to be C15

The vestry has its entrance from the chancel and is lit by a 2-light C16 cusped window with ferramenta supporting the stained glass

The chancel floor is covered in encaustic tiles

There are fragments of medieval stained glass in the heads of the nave north windows and the three-light Crucifixion scene in the east window of 1886 is by Clayton and Bell

MONUMENTS AND PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: An inscription brass in the chapel to Litton Pulter of 1608

C17 Heraldic inscribed ledger stones in the chancel to the Forester and Pulter families

On the chancel south wall, a monument to Margaret Forester of 1757 with marble lectern, rococo cartouche and winged skull, and a monument to the reverend Angel Chauncy of 1762 as a marble aedicule with achievement in the form of a draped urn over

On the north wall a rococo marble cartouche to Martha Forester of 1755, and a Neo-Classical monument to the Reverend Anthony Trollope, grandfather of the novelist

The wooden panelled pulpit is a C20 acquisition from St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch