Church Of St John

The Church of St John, located on Rufford Road in Crossens, was built between 1883 and 1885 by JW Connon of Leeds. It is constructed from rock-faced yellow sandstone with red sandstone dressings and features slate roofs with red ridge tiles. The church is designed in the Gothic style and has a plan that includes a nave with a north-west tower, a south-west porch, coupled north and south transepts, and a polygonal apse.

The exterior of the tower is narrow and features angle buttresses, a polygonal vice up to half height, and a slightly set-back belfry stage with coupled 2-light windows that have bar tracery and stone louvres. It is topped with a corbel table and an embattled parapet. The west gable of the nave showcases coupled 2-centred arched windows with geometric tracery. The two-storey gabled porch has a 2-centred arched doorway that is chamfered in two orders, along with a 2-light mullioned window above. The north and south walls of the nave are adorned with windows featuring three trefoil lights, while the coupled gables of the transepts have tall plate-traceried three-light windows. The interior has not been inspected.