Church Of St John

The Church of St John, built between 1864 and 1865 by Culshaw, is a Grade II listed church located on St John's Road in Crosby. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings and features a fishscale slate roof with bands of purple slate. The architectural style is Early English, characterized by lancet windows throughout.

The church has a plan that includes a nave with a south porch and a north baptistery at the west end, large transepts at the east end, and a chancel with side offices. The exterior of the west gable of the nave features angle-buttresses and a bellcote, with three tall stepped lancets adorned with hoodmoulds, a sillband that steps up and runs out, and three small oval lancets beneath. The side walls, which have buttresses and corbel-tables, showcase tall lancets, except for the first bay on the south side, which includes a gabled porch with a moulded two-centred arched doorway and a small three-sided apse to the west. The first bay on the north side contains a gabled baptistery in a similar style. The roof has two early 20th-century inserted flat-roofed five-light dormers on each side and two square lead-clad pedestals or ventilators on the ridge.

The two-bay transepts and two-bay chancel match the overall style, featuring stepped lancets in the gables. The south transept has a shallow gabled porch beneath the windows with a moulded two-centred arched doorway, and the chancel roof also has dormers on each side similar to those of the nave.

Inside, the church has a large unaisled nave with transepts, notable stained glass windows by various artists, including one by Kempe at the west end of the north side, and pitch-pine pews with side aisles.