Church Of St John

The Church of St John, built between 1837 and 1838 by John Dewhurst, is a Grade II listed building located on Crook Gate Lane in Out Rawcliffe. It is constructed of red brick with some sandstone dressings and features a slate roof. The church has a rectangular plan, with corner clasping buttresses that rise as square turrets. The north and south walls each contain eight bays, with alternate bays separated by shallow projecting buttresses. A projecting band supported by brick corbels runs beneath the stone cornice.

The walls are adorned with two rows of narrow windows that have plain reveals, an outer rebate, and round heads, with a brick string rising above each window. The west wall features continuous arcading on the first floor, with similar details, where alternate openings are blank. Above the gable, there is a circular stone plaque with a chevron border. Flanking the west door, which has a round arch made of moulded bricks forming two quarter-columns on each side with stone capitals and bases, are two windows. The door itself is decorated with a chevron design in brick.

The east window consists of three stepped lights with round heads, and under the gable, there is another circular stone plaque. The corner turrets have two blank openings on each side and stone cornices. Inside, the church possibly originally had three galleries, but now features a modern west gallery. The roof is supported by trusses with tie beams and king posts, along with queen struts that have pendant bosses braced downwards to the walls. The three-decker pulpit is made of grained timber and showcases Romanesque details, while the reredos is created from blank arcading with attached shafts and scalloped capitals beneath a super-arch.