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The church is a rectory, and was originally designed as a chapel to the castle. It is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The body of the church was rebuilt in 1806, and in the register are the following curious epitaphs:

March 13, 1766, died

Thomas Evans,

Parish Clerke, Aged 72.

Old Stanhold’s lines or Vicar of Bray.

Which he tuned best, ’twas hard to say.

Samuel Peate,

Of Wittington Castle, died

Aged 84.

Here lies Governor Peate,

Whom no man did hate.

At the age of fourscore,

And four years more.

He pretended to wrestle

With Death for his castle,

But was soon out of breath,

And surrendered to Death,

Who away did him take

At the eve of our wake,

One morn about seven,

To keep wake in Heaven.

Andrew Williams

was

Born A.D 1692, and died April 18, 1776.

Aged 84.

Of which time he lived under

The Aston family, as decoy man, 60 years.

Here lies the decoy man, who lived like an otter,

Dividing his time betwixt land and water.

His hide he oft soaked in the waters of Perry,