Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church built in 1869 by E. Bassett Keeling. It is constructed from coursed and squared sandstone, featuring bands of red sandstone, with a rendered north nave wall. The roof is made of Welsh slate and has stone copings. The church comprises a nave and chancel with a shorter continuous south aisle and a three-sided apse. The west door in the aisle includes nook shafts and a two-centred arch beneath a high pointed dripmould. The windows feature two-centred arches and red impost bands, with cusped lancets paired in the clerestory and plate tracery in the larger west and east windows. The coping of the buttresses has crescents carved into it, which clasp the nave and aisle.

Inside, the church has a brick structure with ashlar dressings, a rendered blind north arcade, and an ashlar lower section in the chancel with plaster above. The roof is scissor-braced, and the arcade capitals are designed in a stiff-leaf style. The chancel arch is moulded with bracketed shafts, and there is a blind arch in the north chancel wall. A priest's door is located under a high pointed crocketed hood-mould. The chancel roof features stencilled decoration, and the chancel floor is made of tiles and Frosterley marble, which includes a brass memorial to the first vicar, J. S. Blair, who died in 1890. The crescent is noted as the emblem of the Dukes of Northumberland.