Church Of St John

The Church of St John is a church dating from 1776, with later additions. It is constructed of red Flemish and English garden wall bond brick with stone dressings, and has a slate roof. The building comprises a west tower, a nave with a gallery, and a chancel.

The south front features a three-stage, diagonally buttressed tower with a stone base. It has a lancet window with a stone surround and hood mould on the ground floor, another lancet to the second stage, and a belfry lancet with louvres, all with stone surrounds. A battlemented parapet tops the tower, above stone bands separating the stages. An octagonal spire covered in diamond-shaped slates, topped with a weather vane, rises from the tower. Stone offsets to the buttresses terminate into the tower at the level of the band above the second stage. The west front has a pointed arched doorway with a hood mould, a blank shield above it, and a lancet window above the doorway. A circular clock face, set in a square stone surround, is positioned below the belfry opening.

The nave has four bays. A four-centred double doorway with a stone surround leads to the left of the nave, with three stone steps leading up to it. A Y-tracery window is above the doorway, with a hood mould and cusping to the central upper light. Similar windows extend to the right, but are lower. The original chancel was extended around 1902 to become two bays. A triple lancet window is beneath a four-centred stone relieving arch to the left, and a single lancet with a hood mould to the right. The buttresses between the windows and at the south-east angle have swept weathering. The north front is similar, except for a recent 20th-century addition to the right of the chancel. The east end contains a window reset from the 1776 build, with intersecting tracery, cusping forming two mouchettes and a quatrefoil at the top.

Inside, there are 18th-century box pews with raised and fielded panels. The church has two side aisles, but no aisle down the centre. A western gallery, now converted into a meeting room, exists. The ceiling features a decorative central motif and triglyphs to the cornice. The chancel has glass dating from around 1860 in the east window and painted mural decoration depicting sprays of flowers and figures of saints on all chancel walls and the east wall of the nave, executed in an Art Nouveau style. The pulpit, altar rails, and choir stalls were designed by Percy Worthington in 1903, and are also in an Art Nouveau style.