Church Of St John

The Church of St John, built in 1849 by George Gilbert Scott, is a Grade II listed church located in Kingsley. It is constructed from red squared snecked sandstone rubble and features grey slate roofs. The church has a recessed west tower and spire, a nave with a south porch, a short north aisle, a chancel, and a north sacristan. The tower consists of one stage above the nave roof, with square west buttresses, a triangular belfry window that has tracery of three circles, a corbel table, and a splay-footed stone spire with lucarnes on the cardinal faces and clock dials on three of the oblique faces. The church includes a gabled porch, a lean-to north aisle, and a cross-gabled sacristy. It showcases late 13th-century detailing with lancet and Geometrical windows. The oak doors are fitted with ornate wrought iron hinges, and the sacristy has a shaped chimney.

Inside, there is a west baptistry with arches leading to vestries on the north and south sides, and a tower arch with lower arches on each side leading to the nave. The north aisle arcade is made of red softwood and consists of three bays. The roof features arch-braced principal rafters and scissor-trussed common rafters, while the chancel arch is corbelled on semi-octagon responds. A wrought iron screen designed by Scott is present, along with an octagonal font. The church contains early and mid-20th-century glass in the chancel and the easternmost window of the north aisle, as well as a stone reredos with polished granite columns.