Church Of St. John

The Church of St. John, built between 1885 and 1886 by architects Ball and Elce, is a notable church located in Silverdale. Constructed from squared limestone with sandstone dressings, it features a sandstone interior and a red tile roof. The church includes a west tower, a nave with a clearstorey, aisles, a north porch, transepts, and a lower chancel.

The three-stage tower is characterized by angle buttresses, a battlemented parapet adorned with corner gargoyles, and a deeply moulded west door. Above the door, there is a three-light window with reticulated tracery, and each face of the tower has two two-light bell openings with traceried heads. The east window also features reticulated tracery.

Inside, the nave consists of four bays supported by compound piers and arcades with pointed arches of two chamfered orders. The chancel arch and the wide tower arch have compound responds. The interior is distinguished by high-quality stone carving, including a statue of St. John in a niche on the tower wall, roof corbels carved as angels, and historiated capitals on the piers. These capitals depict scenes from the Book of Revelation, such as four angels holding the four winds of the earth, seven angels with seven trumpets, and four and twenty elders with crowns of gold, as well as the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The chancel features triple sedilia with cusped heads, while the nave roof has arch-braced collars and the chancel has a barrel roof. The clearstorey and east window contain late 19th-century stained glass. The font, dated 1886, is decorated with foliage, tracery, and shafts.