Church Of St John The Divine

The Church of St John the Divine is a parish church built in 1860 by James Deason for the Duke of Northumberland. It is constructed from snecked tooled stone with ashlar dressings and features graduated Lakeland slate roofs. The church has a four-bay nave with porches on the north and south sides, and a chancel that includes a north vestry, designed in the style of the 13th century.

The exterior includes a chamfered plinth with small trefoil vents beneath each window. At the west end, there are two two-light windows topped by a cinquefoiled round light, flanked by large stepped buttresses, with single lancets at the ends of the aisles. The steep gable has a lower pitch above the aisles and supports a tall gabled bellcote with twin pointed arches. The north and south porches are gabled and feature double-chamfered arches, with the inner order supported by colonnettes and square-headed loops in the returns. Above the arch of the north porch is an ornate wrought-iron lamp bracket inscribed 'VICTORIA 1887'. Inside the porches, there are stone benches and boarded and studded double doors with foliate hinges.

The church has single lancets to the west of the porches and paired lancets to the east, with a single lancet at the east end of the south aisle. The chancel has two bays with single and paired trefoiled lancets in the side walls and three stepped lancets at the east end, along with a priest's door on the south side. The pent-roofed vestry has an extruded canted east passage with a trefoil window and a stone slab roof, topped by a tall chimneystack with a moulded stone top. The gables are coped on moulded kneelers and feature panelled gablets with foliate finial crosses on the east gables.

Inside, the church is plastered, with double-chamfered nave arcades that have hoodmoulds supported by foliage boss stops. The round piers have moulded capitals and bases, and the chancel arch is similar, resting on shafted jambs. The high wagon roofs include ashlar pieces at the feet of the rafters, and the sanctuary is tiled. There is a stone pulpit adorned with a quatrefoil frieze and nailhead cornice, and a carved chancel screen serves as a memorial to Sir Charles Stamp Milburn of Guyzance, who died in 1917.