Description: A fine example of 12th-century early Gothic architecture, with an elegant chancel and magnificent Jacobean pulpit. The church of St. John the Baptist, the earliest known date for which is 1135 when Oscot was Rector, was one of the richest livings in the Hundred of Scarsdale and has in its churchyard the remains of what is reputed to be an Anglican preaching cross, which would, if such it is, predate the first church building.