Church Of St John

The Church of St John is a parish church built in 1860 by Major C.E. Davis of Bath, with a west tower added in 1890 by Montgomery and Carr. It is constructed of rough-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features rock-faced margined quoins, topped with a stone slate roof. The church exhibits a free Romanesque style and includes a nave with an apsidal sanctuary, a west tower, and a south porch.

The south elevation of the nave has a chamfered plinth and a projecting gabled porch supported by heavy clasping buttresses. The porch features an arch with a chamfered inner order on free-standing shafts and an outer order adorned with large indented ornament. There are single-light windows in the returns of the porch, three similar windows in the east wall, and five in the north wall. The east gable is coped with kneelers and a finial cross. The light sanctuary has single-light side windows and a three-light east window, with the central light featuring an indented arch flanked by shafts with pillow capitals.

The three-stage west tower includes a west window that has been re-set from the original 1860 west end, displaying an unconventional three-light pattern within a circular surround. The second stage has single-light windows, while the belfry features two-light openings above a moulded string course, capped by a moulded parapet on corbels.

Inside, there is a plain round arch leading to the sanctuary and a double-chamfered tower arch. The church has a 20th-century wagon roof, as the original plan for a stone vault was abandoned after two collapses. A simple 12th-century-style font is present, along with a Dickinson memorial window from 1893 depicting infant Samuel, and three windows by L.C. Evetts featuring scenes from the life of St. Cuthbert, created between 1955 and 1960.