St John The Baptist

restored 1871-2 by Richard Norman Shaw.

timber framed belfry with red brick infill, machine tile roof with ornamental cresting and coped verges.

Nave: fabric of north wall C13, lancet to each side of pointed double-chamfered doorway with hoodmould

south doorway in similar style under late C17 gabled wooden porch with stone slate roof

Interior: mid-C14 trussed rafter roof with carved bosses extending full length of church restored and boarded up by Shaw

late C17 carved wooden pulpit and late C19 octagonal stone font

in chancel are a pillar piscina (probably C15) and on the east wall a statue pedestal resting on the carved stone head of a woman which retains faint traces of paint

late C14 stained glass in north and east windows - fragments of architectural canopies and figures, south window with stained glass of c.1915

chancel screen probably early C15, eight broad one-light divisions, 2 to centre with depressed arch beneath and 3 to either side, richly carved throughout with upper part of dado delicately pierced with a variety of late Decorated and Perpendicular tracery patterns, this is surmounted by a band of unpierced quatrefoils with a row of pierced quatrefoils and brattishing above

behind the screen, set in the floor, is a stone altar slab and a good set of late C14 glazed tiles

oak parish chest (possibly medieval) at west end of nave.

No monuments of note.

The church was originally a dependent chapelry of Much Wenlock and did not become a separate parish until the latter half of C14.