St John The Baptist

4-bay nave, largely reconstructed in C15 with 2-light and 3-light windows of that date.

Fine early C15 knapped flint porch with flushwork panelling across the whole facade and a crenellated parapet.

Enriched entrance arch and hood mould, with leaf-carved spandrels

Original wooden lierne vault with carved bosses.

Moulded nave doorway with medieval plank door.

Early C14 chancel, heightened

refenestrated in C15

C15 arch- braced nave roof in 8 bays with a crenellated wallplate (partly renewed) and arch-bracing beneath the ridge.

C15 4-bay arch-braced chancel roof with C19 restoration and painted decoration.

In the chancel an early C14 piscina with elongated trefoil arch.

C15 piscina in nave.

C15 carved octagonal font with small traces of orignal colouring: the bowl panels depict alternately lions and angels holding shields bearing a leopard, derived from the arms of Sir John Jermy who was Lord of the Manor.

Part of the dado of the medieval rood screen is stored at the west end of the nave: there are traceried panels and some original colouring.

Rood screen panels (moved to west wall). For an exterior view see > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2610907. For detailed information about this church see: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2104033.

© Evelyn Simak

In the base of the tower an early C17 turret clock still in use.