The parish church of St. John the Baptist is at the top of the high Street. Most of the fabric dates from the rebuilding of 1321 - parts of the chancel and transepts may be older. The different parts are harmonious in style, and all the windows but one glow with colour. Look for the window in the north chancel watt with a border of tiny squirrels; for the two windows in the north aisle designed by Comper which have his sign of a strawberry plant at the bottom right; for the little window nearby by Whitefriars with their hooded white friar at the foot; and for a picture of this church in the window east of the entrance in the south aisle. The font was made c. 1500. Near it is a replica of the brass memorial to baby Ann Bedingfeld (died 1580), showing her in swaddling clothes. By the south door is a tablet to Henry Pye (died 1813) who was a poet laureate. In the Lady Chapel the large memorial to Christopher Clitherow has at the base a skull with the lower jaw missing, to signify that he had no children living at his death. In the churchyard, the tall pointed monument covers the grave of William and Agnes Loudon (died 1809 and 1831), parents of the architect and garden encyclopaedist John Claudius Loudon, while the wooden graveboard behind the church commemorates William Skenelsby, who died in 1775 at the age of 118. In the churchyard is an unusual memorial to William Loudon known as 'The Coffin in the Sky'.