Church of St John

The Church of St John, built between 1906 and 1907 by architects Austin and Paley, is a Grade II listed building located in Ellel. Constructed from sandstone rubble with a red tile roof, the church features a nave with a clerestorey on the north side, a north aisle, a crossing tower, a north transept, a vestry, and a chancel.

The south wall of the nave consists of three bays, each with windows of three, three, and two lights that have segmental heads and free Perpendicular tracery. To the right, there is a single clerestorey window with two lights and elliptical heads, followed by a doorway with a pointed head. A porch to the left features a pointed arch doorway and gable coping topped with a cross finial. The north aisle windows contain two and three cusped ogee lights beneath flat heads, while the clerestorey windows have two lights with elliptical heads under flat lintels. The tower is buttressed on both the north and south sides and includes a stair turret on the south. The second stage of the tower features a window with a pointed head and tracery, and the bell openings consist of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil under a pointed head. The tower is capped with solid coping, as the intended spire was never constructed. The chancel has a south window with two lights and a segmental head with tracery, and the east window features five lights under a pointed head with tracery.

Inside, the six-bay nave arcade is characterized by pointed arches that are chamfered in two orders, with piers that alternate between round and octagonal shapes. The roof is supported by trusses with arch-braced collars and king posts, alternating with tie-beam trusses that also have collars, king posts with curved braces to the principals, and curved queen struts. The crossing features pointed arches with mouldings that die into round piers. The south transept was not constructed, leaving an external wall behind its arch. The chancel includes a piscina with a cusped head, and the windows contain glass from various early 20th-century dates.