Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church built in 1876 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a red tile roof. The church includes a nave with a south aisle and a north-west tower/porch, as well as a chancel that has a south organ chamber and a north vestry. The design is in a free 13th-century style with geometric tracery. Notable architectural details include a high chamfered plinth, stepped buttresses, clasping buttresses on the tower and eastern arms, a moulded sill string, and a hollow-chamfered eaves cornice with foliage stops on the hoodmoulds.

The tower features double doors set in a triple-chamfered arch, with a lancet window above. The belfry stage is chamfered and set back, topped with a heavy eaves corbel table and a broach spire that is rock-faced up to a moulded string, with the upper part featuring four lucarnes and a stair turret on the west side. The north wall of the nave has three bays, with two 2-light windows and a lancet. The west end includes a tall 2-light window flanked by lancets, and a west aisle lancet set back to the right. A string course runs above the central window. The south wall has low eaves and features two 2-light windows in half dormers. The chancel arms have 2-light windows with pierced circles above and Y-tracery windows on single lancets, along with a stepped triplet in the east end. Both gable ends are coped with crosses.

Inside, the church is plastered with ashlar features. It has a 4-bay south arcade with clustered columns made of marble. The chancel arch is tall and double-chamfered, supported by colonnettes over stone corbels. An aumbry is located on the north wall, and sedilia can be found on the south chancel wall. The east lancets have black marble jamb shafts and hoodmoulds with leafy carved stops. The roofs are arch-braced timber, with the chancel being panelled and the aisle dormer roofs featuring hip rafters and collars. The chancel screen was carved by the Rev. Proctor, who was vicar from 1885 to 1916, along with his parishioners; there are also screens leading to the vestry and organ chamber. A carved stone reredos is set into the panelled east wall. The original tiled floors are elaborately patterned in the sanctuary, and there is well-carved bench seating in the nave and choir, with poppy-head bench ends in the choir.