Church Of St John Evangelist

The Church of St John Evangelist is a church built between 1869 and 1870 by architects J.M. and H. Taylor. It features rubble walling made of stone and industrial waste, with brick banding and brick and stone dressings, topped by a slate roof. The church has a nave with a double-pitched roof and a north porch, alongside a chancel that includes a north chapel and a south organ loft, both under lean-to roofs. The nave consists of four bays supported by deep, weathered buttresses, which are flanked by lancet windows. The porch has a lean-to roof and a gabled entrance. At the west end, there are three lancets with an upper window of four lights featuring simple brick tracery, flanked by buttresses and paired lancets at the ends. The chancel includes a clerestory with two lancets and an east window with three lights that has Geometrical tracery, accompanied by flanking gabled and panelled buttresses. The chapel has a window with four lancets on the north side and a two-light window on the east with a patterned brick tympanum. The organ loft features a two-light window with segmental-headed lights and a patterned brick tympanum. At the junction of the nave and chancel, there is a bellcote with flanking pinnacles topped by eagle finials, along with a lateral stack on the south side of the chancel. Inside, the nave has a roof supported by double hammer beam trusses, with brick walls that include some polychromy. The chancel screen is made of wrought iron and is dated 1885. The font is of pudding basin form with four angle shafts. The pulpit has a square brick base and an octagonal top with broaches in the angles and a cusped niche. The chancel features three-bay arcading without moulding or capitals, and there is a timber reredos. The chapel has a 20th-century screen. The east window contains good stained glass from 1884, while the lower west window commemorates a nurse who died in the South African War in 1900.