Church Of St John

The Church of St John is a parish church dating from 1885-6, designed by Oliver and Leeson and built by William Foster, a mason from Durham. Following a fire, the south transept roof was restored and a vestry was added. The church is constructed of snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, a plinth, quoins, and a roof of purple, green, and blue slates with stone gable copings. It is built in the Early English style, comprising a nave with a south porch, transepts, a crossing tower, a chancel, a south vestry, and a north boiler room and organ chamber.

The gabled porch has a wide-chamfered, open 2-centred arch under a dripmould, with side buttresses and 2- and 3-light windows. The nave and transepts feature stepped 5-light windows to the west and east, all within 2-centred arched panels. A sill string steps up to the west window, and buttresses are present at the west end and on one side of the nave. The crossing tower has paired 2-light windows with plate tracery, a moulded corbel table, and a roll-moulded, stepped battlemented parapet, topped with a hipped roof and a wrought-iron weather cock.

The interior features painted plaster with ashlar dressings and an arch-braced collared roof with stone corbels. Wide 2-centred arches are found at the crossing, while the nave and transepts are finished with plain chamfered plaster. The chancel arch consists of chamfered ashlar with a similar inner corbelled arch, resting on stop-chamfered responds with an impost string. All windows have chamfered 2-centred rerearches. A sill string is present, stepping up in the chancel to form a drip over the transept door to the vestry and a mask-stopped drip over the vestry door in the chancel. The windows contain plain glass in geometric patterns and simple colours. A Gothic-style, octagonal stone font stands within the church, alongside a First World War memorial plaque.