St John The Baptist

chancel altered and tower added C15, C18 vestry

Ashlar, rubble and dressed sandstone, Welsh slate and tile roofs.

West tower, C12 2-bay nave and chancel now form north aisle and chapel, C19 4-bay nave overlaps tower and has separately-roofed aisle with porch to south, C20 chancel extends beyond C12 chancel by 2 bays, C20 1-bay extension to south aisle.

north gargoyle beneath altered parapet, pitched roof.

C12 nave: large quoins to rubble heightened in C15 ashlar

2 hollow-chamfered, Tudor-arched 3-light windows

C12 chancel: lower and narrower and with lean-to north vestry having 2-light chamfered, mullioned window

C15 ashlar north wall above

South porch to bay 2 of aisle has early-C12 south door refixed within: shafted jambs, beak-headed voussoirs, chequer and lozenge work in tympanum, damaged carving over.

Interior: C15 tower arch has chamfered quoins and corbelled inner order partly chamfered.

Nave: C15 roof with moulded, cambered tie beams and original rafters and purlins, carved bosses.

Chancel arch: early C12, inner order on 1/2-columned imposts and 1/4 columns towards nave

Fittings: circular font on double-chamfered plinth.

Early Norman plain tub font in St.John the Baptist's church, the scene of countless baptisms for over 1,000 years

© Richard Croft

Hexagonal pulpit dated 1727 with fielded panels, contemporary splat- balustered communion rail and panelling to old chancel.

Stained glass: 3 late medieval panels in north windows

1st World War memorial window in old chancel.

Monuments: to left of old chancel east window, a marble wall wall monument to Sir Thomas Hewett (d1726) and wife (d1756).