Church Of St John Evangelist

The Church of St John Evangelist is a parish church dated 1847, located in Lynesack and Softley. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone, featuring an ashlar plinth, dressings, and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof and stone gable copings. The church has a six-bay nave with a south porch and a shallow west belfry, along with a one-bay chancel that includes a north vestry. Designed in the Early English style, the church has three steps leading up to a pointed-arched boarded door, which is set under a dripmould with shield block stops. The porch has a steeply-gabled roof with coping on moulded kneelers and a roll-moulded finial.

The church features similar dripmoulds over lancet windows with alternate-block jambs and sloping sills, with three at the east end and two at the west, flanking a four-stage belfry. This belfry includes a lancet in the first stage, a blocked trefoil in the second, and four louvred lancets in the octagonal top stage, which is topped by a steep conical stone spirelet. Clasping buttresses at the corners have steep coping, and the steeply-pitched roof has a damaged angelus finial and a small stone cross at the east.

Inside, the church has painted plaster walls with dado moulding. The roof features collared trusses with trefoil bracing on stone corbels, while the chancel roof is plain with single purlins. The chancel arch is deeply chamfered and rests on half-octagonal stone corbels. The pew ends have blank quatrefoil panels, and the pulpit and choir pews are in a more elaborate version of the same style. An early 20th-century traceried wood reredos and fluted chancel panelling are present, along with a tiled chancel floor and a brass communion rail supported by leaf-decorated cast iron balusters. A hammered bronze First World War memorial panel is located on the north wall of the nave. The church also features an octagonal stone pulpit with a brass lectern, and a late 19th-century organ by Nelson, which has stencilled decoration on its pipes.