Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church built between 1849 and 1850 by architect Pickering. It is constructed from snecked tooled sandstone and features blue Lakeland slate roofs. The church has an aisleless nave and a west tower, which is flanked by single-storey half-octagonal projections and a south porch. The design includes double-gabled transepts and a short one-bay chancel with an apse. To the north of the chancel, there is a small semi-circular chapel and a plain vestry, all designed in a Norman style.

The church features round-headed windows, most of which have roll mouldings and nook shafts with scalloped capitals. A corbel table runs along the panelled sections of the three-bay nave, and the paired transept windows have round openings with chevron moulding above. The chancel also has a corbel table. The tower consists of four stages, with a round window in the lowest stage that resembles those in the transepts, a round-headed window above it, a clock face in the third stage, and a single bell opening at the top stage, topped with a parapet resting on a corbel table.

The main entrance is located in the porch, which has stout chevron moulding and nook shafts with scalloped capitals. The porch is a later addition in Tudor style, made from similar wall materials and featuring a stone-flagged roof.

Inside, the church is plastered and wainscoted up to the base of the windows, which have pronounced splay. The tall tower arch, chancel arch, and paired arches to the transepts all feature chevron and bobbin ornament, resting on scalloped capitals of round piers. The nave roof is of arch-braced collar beam and king-post type, supported by long wood brackets on stone corbels. The apsidal east end has four large engaged columns with scalloped capitals and roll-moulded thick ribs, while the chancel roof is similar to the nave but lower. A small wood rood screen is present, and the east window depicts the crucifixion. There are also two memorial windows in the north aisle, one of which was made by Cottier and Co. and is dated 1872.