St John of Jerusalem (now)
Parish church
Winkburn is a village in the Newark and Sherwood district of the county, 6 miles NW of Newark. The church is of dressed coursed rubble, rendered except for the tower. It consists of chancel, nave, S porch and W tower. The doorway in the S porch, the openings in the tower and the tower arch are Romanesque. The fabric of the church appears to be largely 11th/12thc.. An inscription on the tower tells of a restoration in 1632. There was a further restoration in 1996.
Chapel
Ford is a small settlement on the River Lugg, 2 miles S of Leominster, where the minor road from Stoke Prior joins the A49, Leominster to Hereford road. The church is alongside this minor road, and appears to be a complete Norman apsed church built on a tiny scale. In fact it is by T. Nicholson and dates from 1850-51. It is reputed to be built on the old foundations, but if this is so it was built to nothing like the original height. It has a rectangular nave with an apsidal chancel and a N vestry and is constructed of sandstone rubble with a slate roof. Loose on the floor inside is a 12thc piscina of unusual design; the only Romanesque feature.