Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church built in 1862 by architect Salvin for the Duke of Northumberland. It is constructed from snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a slate roof featuring flat stone gable copings on kneelers. The church has an aisled nave with a south porch and short aisles leading to the chancel. The south door, located in the gabled porch, has a moulded pointed arch, while the chancel features a shouldered priest's door.

At the west end, there are two tall lancet windows separated by a massive buttress that extends to a corbelled, gabled bell-cote. The lancets in the aisles and clerestory have irregular-block jambs, with pairs of lancets in the south nave aisle and three stepped lancets on the east side. The nave and chancel roofs are steeply pitched and adorned with cross finials, while the porch has a fleur-de-lis finial.

Inside, the church features plaster walls and chamfered four-bay nave arcades, with rear arches to the windows and doors. The chancel arch is chamfered and has an inner arch supported by shafted corbels. There are two-bay arcades on low walls leading to the chancel aisles. The nave roof has a cellar-truss design with corbelled shafts.

Notable interior elements include a painted wooden First World War memorial panel in the north aisle, stained glass by Theophilus Storey of Newcastle from 1892, an illuminated Our Father on a wooden panel in the chancel, and a marble monument by G. Park of North Shields dedicated to Arthur Tomlin Coates, the vicar who died in 1897.