St John The Baptist

Tower: circa 1350, re-modelled early C17 and restored c.1860.

2-light cusped windows with quatrefoils above to the belfry have hoodmoulds with grotesque labels (early C17)

battlemented top with corner pinnacles and gargoyles, C20 brass weather- cock.

The slightly splayed flat-headed window on the west face of the second stage is probably C17

the statue pedestal and the gabled canopy above are C14 - the statue itself, however, is C19

Short chancel of 2 bays (the western bay overlapped by the priest's vestry on the south and by the nave aisle on the north), East window blocked , although 2 stone angels remain to indicate its former dimensions.

Amongst much else, Hare was responsible for the screens, gilded reredos (blocking the East window), the organ gallery, choir stalls, marble flooring, pulpit, brass chandeliers and the panelled and painted chancel roof

it was also under his direction that the great majority of the present stained glass was installed.

Other points of interest include the font unusually built into the north-east pillar of the tower and the C16 alms-dish on a stand incorporating the inscriptions of 2 early C17 bells, which formerly hung in the tower.

Monuments: in the north aisle chapel (divided from the aisle by one of Hare's screens), the Gerard monument to Sir Gilbert and his wife - a large alabaste rib-vaulted canopy with round arches at either end and obelisks abov over 2 recumbent effigies, subsidiary figures at the head, foot and in a panel behind

in a recess beneath is a much-worn medieval statue of a shroud-wrapped figure, which, to judge from the weathering, was probably originally in an external position

above the chancel arch (although this is probably not its original position) is the memorial to William Chetwynd of Maer Hall by Joseph Wedgwood - a basalt urn on a narrow inscribed plinth with a fuller inscription on a panel beneath

the remainder of the principal monuments are all in the south aisle chapel and are to members of the Kinnersley family, whose chapel this was: William Shepherd by Ternouth, Thomas by Chantrey, Anne , Harriot , Thomas by Noble and Elizabeth

A C17 cauldron-shaped font, formerly inside the church, is now outside, immediately to the east of the south porch.

there is documentary evidence that it was re-built c.1350 by David ap Cynwrig