St John The Baptist

There is a mid-C15 north aisle, late C15 alterations and in the early C16 the chancel was widened to the north and the north vestry was added

There are old red tiles to chancel roof and machine tiles elsewhere

The south aisle retains a restored C12 west window below a C14 quatrefoil

The clerestorey is lit by four two-light square-headed C15 windows

The larger north aisle has a three-light C16 west window, a restored entrance to the north and three two-light C15 windows

Continuing from the north aisle is a C15 north chapel of two bays, with a blocked doorway and two- and three-light windows

The south chapel has straight buttresses, and is lit by two C13 lancets to the south, a two-light window of c1300 in the eastwards extension, and a restored three-light window from c1300 to east

There is a C19 entrance and a C15 three-light window to the west, and C13 lancets to the north and south in the lower stage

The upper stages are a C15 rebuilding and have single lights in the second stage and paired openings in the belfry all with square heads

Interior: the chancel arch is C14, and has hollow moulded orders, and octagonal responds

The C15 tower arch is similar with circular shafts to the responds

The doors to the rood stair date to the C14

The C13 pointed arch arcade to the south chapel has chamfered orders with octagonal piers and moulded capitals

Above the blocked C13 piscina in the chancel south wall is a deeply splayed lancet window opening into the lengthened south chapel

There is a C15 double arcade to the north chapel from chancel, with flatter arches than that to the south, that to west abuts onto the east wall of the north aisle above a low C15 arch linking the north aisle and chapel

The north and south aisles and chapels have simple C15 roofs with moulded tie beams and purlins, and there are arched braces in the smaller south aisle

The nave roof is probably slightly later: it has moulded and painted beams, with traceried spandrels to arched braces from stone angel corbels to tie beams with carved ornament

The ceiled chancel roof is C19 with carved and painted bosses and ornament

The C13/C14 font in the west tower is of Purbeck marble, with a moulded square base and bowl, a circular stem and four corner shafts

A large oak chest in the west tower, possibly C14, has iron bands and hinges

The screen from the south aisle and chapel which retains some C15 timber and painted decoration, was restored by A Blomfield

The Rood screen in the chancel arch is by C J Blomfield

The pulpit, choir stalls, and screens to the chapel are by A Blomfield

There is a C17 communion table with turned and fluted legs in the south chapel

Monuments: in the south chapel on the south wall there are two chest tombs with effigies in contemporary dress, forming one composition to the wife and daughter-in-law of Sir W Crowmer, c1400

The spandrels contain richly carved relief ornament and arms

Further east is a wall monument to Katherine Cade, who died 1615, depicting a painted praying figure in an alabaster and marble aedicule, with arms in a broken pediment

On the south aisle is a wall monument to Vice Admiral J Chambers White, who died 1845, within an elaborate Gothic aedicule

Further west is a large variously-coloured marble wall monument to Robert and Sarah Hucks, who died 1771, in the form of profile busts on a sarcophagus in an aedicular frame

In the north chapel on the north wall is a large double-effigy marble chest tomb of J Coghill and his wife, who died 1714, with figures informally disposed in contemporary dress, arms on the east side, and an inscription to the front

Brasses: there are several small C16 figures in the chancel and the south chapel, and larger figures at the west end of the north aisle, and various floor slabs

Glass: several windows are by Kempe 1891-1900

Subsiduary Features: in the churchyard, situated approximately 8m north of the church, is a monument to Midshipman Robert Smith, who died on 21 October 1805 in the Battle of Trafalgar