Church Of St John

The Church of St John is a parish church built in 1836 on a new site, replacing St Andrews at Greymare Hill. It features an organ chamber added in the mid-19th century and a chancel completed in 1903. The church is constructed of squared stone with cut dressings and has a graduated Lakeland slate roof. The nave includes a south porch and a north-east organ chamber, while the chancel has a five-sided apse. The early 19th-century parts are designed in a 13th-century style, while the chancel reflects a free 13th and 14th-century style.

The church has a chamfered plinth, and the porch contains a studded door set in a double-chamfered pointed arch with a chamfered hood. Above the porch is a blind lancet in a steeply-pitched coped gable with moulded kneelers. To the east of the porch are three lancet windows, with three similar windows on the north side of the nave and two at the west end. The west bellcote is supported by moulded corbels and features twin pointed openings beneath a coped gablet. The organ chamber has a half-hipped roof to the north with a lancet window and a corbelled hip. The chancel has two early 19th-century lancet windows re-set on the south side, cinquefoil-headed lights in the apse, and a stepped sill string. Beneath the central light is a panel with ornate canopied niches dedicated to the Walton-Wilson family. The roof has a wrought-iron ridge ornament and a finial cross.

Inside, there is a plain chamfered arch leading to the south door and a double-chamfered four-centred arch to the organ chamber. The chancel arch is richly moulded in the 13th-century style, with pilasters and a string course. The chancel also contains a credence table and a piscina with a shelf. The floor features Minton tiles, and there is good early 20th-century glass in the apse. The nave roof is supported by collar-beam trusses on moulded corbels, and there are early 19th-century boards displaying the creed and commandments.