Church Of St John

The Church of St John, built in 1893 by Edmund Kirby, features a combination of ashlar, red Flemish bond brick, and timber framing with rendered infill, topped with a tile roof. The church includes a tower, narthex, southwestern porch, nave, chancel, and southeastern vestry. The stone lower walls are remnants of a previous church designed by Thomas Harrison, which was destroyed by fire in 1891. Small offset buttresses were added by Kirby.

The western narthex has timber-framed walls and a lean-to roof that connects to the main nave. It features a central window with four casement lights and a timber-framed gable above, along with two 2-light windows on each side. The porch, which continues from the narthex, has a half-hipped roof and one 2-light window on both the west and east side walls. The tower rises in two stages from the narthex, with a bay window on the first stage that has four mullioned lights and two transoms, along with two mullioned lights on the sides. Above this is a coving with a timber-framed gable, and the brick belfry stage has louvred openings on each face, topped with a double-pitch roof and lead spire.

The south front features close-studding, with the nave comprising three bays and a porch to the left. The windows have flat lintels and consist of four lights with Perpendicular tracery. The vestry projects to the south, featuring a half-hipped roof and a six-light casement window below the eaves. The chancel is made of brick and has a late decorated eastern window.

Inside, the western internal wall between the nave and narthex is timber-framed, with leaded casement windows on either side of a large central glazed opening to the tower. Other internal walls are made of brick, with deeply chamfered window reveals supported by double quarter-circle moulded stone corbels that hold a continuous wooden lintel with roll moulding and brattishing above. The coving above the lintel displays a row of small framing cells. The southeasternmost bay of the nave has a double wooden arched opening leading to the vestry, and there is a pointed brick chancel arch with continuous moulding at the base. The roof was retiled in 1982.