Church of St John the Baptist, Niton

[citation needed] In the Victorian era it was extensively restored and rebuilt.

[2] The north aisle was demolished, its arcade filled in and two-light Perpendicular Gothic windows inserted in each of the filled-in arches.

[2] On the wall can be found a memorial portrait by John Flaxman, showing a woman holding pelicans in her hand in relief.

[citation needed] The registers, which date from 1560, include the following entry: July the 1st, Anno Domini 1675.

Charles II, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, etc., came safely ashore at Puckaster, after he had endured a great and dangerous storm at sea.."[4]In front of the porch is a 19th-century Celtic cross by Joseph Clarke[3] on the four steps of the old churchyard cross.

Entrance to the church