Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a church built between 1865 and 1866, designed by J. Medland Taylor. It is constructed from snecked stone with ashlar dressings and features decorative roofs made of green and blue slate. The church includes a nave, clerestory, aisles, a south-west tower, a west porch with a gallery above, transepts, and a polygonal chancel with vestry and organ chamber on either side. Notable architectural elements include stone bands (some in color), overhanging eaves, and steeply pitched roofs with coped gables. The clerestory and aisles have three bays, polygonal weathered buttresses, cusped circular clerestory lights, and two 2-light aisle windows in each bay featuring geometrical tracery. The three-stage tower has set-back weathered buttresses, small lancet openings on the first two stages, and 2-light openings in the belfry. The broach spire is adorned with decorated bands and gabled lucarnes. The transepts have four-light windows, while the chancel has three 2-light windows. The vestry features a diagonally set door, and the organ chamber has a diagonally set window. Inside, the nave arcade is supported by short columns with variously carved capitals and tall chamfered arches. The chancel arch is supported by elaborate columnar corbels, and the roof features scissor-braced trusses. The church also contains good stained glass, some made by Abbott and Co., a carved stone pulpit, and a font supported by short columns with flying buttresses holding up the bowl.