St John the Baptist

Introduction

The sacristy projects from the eastern end of the southern elevation, where it is joined to the presbytery.

Architecture and furnishings

Above the buttresses are small carved shields showing coats of arms. Above the door is a niche containing a statue beneath a decorative ogee-roofed canopy with traceried panels. The entrance door has an internal surround with Perpendicular-style tracery, carved spandrels and floral decoration in the outer surround. The original ceiling of the porch has been lost and replaced with a plain plaster ceiling; fluted pilasters survive in the corners which may have led up to a fan vault.

The internal door into the church itself has modern doors in a Tudor-style surround, with a carved coat of arms in the elevation above. The nave has plain timber pews, some of which originally had tall poppyheads which are understood to have been removed in the 1970s. The pulpit has a carved ogee base with traceried panels above and a figure of a green man in the carved cornice. There is a continuous panelled ceiling throughout the church with stencilled decoration.

Visiting

The church has a continuous crenellated parapet. The church has a highly ornate wall pulpit at the sanctuary end, accessed from a stair inside the sacristy. The church has an ornately carved western gallery with an arcaded screen with stepped posts leading up to crocketted finials. The church has a sedile with an ornate canopy to the right of the sanctuary.

The church has a Tudor-style door adjacent to the pulpit giving access to the sacristy. The church has a four-light east window with Perpendicular style tracery beneath a flat head.