Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church built between 1835 and 1840 by Thomas Prosser. A north aisle was added in 1860, and a choir and vicar's vestries in 1885-6, designed by R.J. Johnson. The church is constructed of dressed limestone with sandstone dressings and Welsh slate roofs. It is executed in the Perpendicular style, characterised by windows with mainly rectilinear tracery, trefoil-headed lights, chamfered reveals, hoodmoulds, and alternating jambs.

The west tower is of two stages and features a chamfered plinth and diagonal buttresses. A doorway is located in the south wall, beneath a four-centred arch, and a three-light window occupies the west wall. The belfry stage above a string course has four louvred openings of two lights with pointed heads, partly obscured by clock faces, and is topped by a slightly projecting battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles. The south wall of the wide, three-bay nave has a chamfered plinth, diagonally-buttressed corners with stepped buttresses between bays, and two-light square-headed windows, finished with a low parapet and chamfered, roll-moulded coping. A canted porch in the south wall, where the nave meets the chancel, includes a doorway with a pointed-arched head and a small lancet window above. The lower, narrower two-bay chancel has a chamfered plinth and low parapet. It incorporates two high-set two-light windows with square heads and a stepped buttress between. The east end is diagonally-buttressed and features a tall three-light window with a pointed head, string courses above and below. A single-storey, gabled vicar's vestry attached to the north of the chancel has a low four-light window with a square head. A two-storey choir vestry has similar fenestration and a door under a pointed-arched head. The tall, four-bay north aisle has a double-chamfered plinth, chamfered sill band, four two-light windows with square heads, gabled returns with chamfered coping and kneelers, and a steeply-pitched roof.

Inside, the nave has a first floor gallery at the west end, three ranks of 19th-century pews, and a panelled roof. The north aisle arcade consists of four double-chamfered pointed arches supported on circular piers. Two steps lead up to a four-centred, hollow-chamfered chancel arch. The chancel roof features four hammerbeam trusses with cambered collars. A substantial stucco and marble monument to the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, who died in 1854, stands against the south wall of the chancel, incorporating Gothick details. A late 20th-century addition to the north of the tower is not of architectural interest.