Church Of St John The Divine

The Church of St John the Divine is a church built between 1830 and 1832 by architects Rickman and Hutchinson, with the date 1832 inscribed at the west end. It is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond, featuring sandstone dressings and a slate roof, and is designed in the Gothick style.

The church has a 9-bay nave with galleried north and south aisles beneath carried-down roofs, except for the westernmost bay, and a short sanctuary. The exterior includes a symmetrical gabled west facade with clasping corner pilasters, each containing a small blind lancet, and terminating in stone turrets that feature louvred lancets and embattled parapets. In the center, there is a shallow gabled porch with buttresses, a 2-centred arched double-chamfered doorway, and a steeply-pitched gable that rises into the center light of the west window, which is a stepped triple-lancet with hood-moulds. Above this, there is a small louvred lancet and a stone parapet. The aisles consist of 8 narrow bays with simple buttresses that have one offset and a gablet, each bay containing a tall lancet with a sillband and hood-mould, with parapets extending from the front. There are shallow porches in the westernmost bays, with the south side featuring a 2-centred arched moulded stone doorway and the north side being simpler. The sanctuary has a stepped triple lancet east window and 20th-century additions at ground floor level.

Inside, there is a vestibule with symmetrical winding stone staircases leading to the gallery. The gallery is three-sided, comprising 6 x 3 bays with a square-panelled wooden front, supported by slender cast-iron columns with annular caps and linked by wide segmental arches with open spandrels. The interior features moulded plaster wall corbels supporting a flat ceiling with moulded ribs, and original pitch-pine pews with brass umbrella stands.

The church forms a group with the boundary wall to the churchyard.