Church Of St John The Divine

The Church of St John the Divine is a church built between 1861 and 1862 by architects W. and J. Hay. It is constructed of stone and features a banded slate roof. The church has a three-bay nave, a north aisle, and a chancel with a north vestry. The nave is adorned with two-light windows that have Geometrical tracery set between buttresses. The south gabled porch includes an entrance of one order and small stained glass lights. The west end of the church features angle buttresses and two traceried lights with a quatrefoil above, along with a traceried light for the aisle and a stack at the junction of the nave and aisle. The aisle has paired trefoil-headed lights, while the lean-to vestry contains trefoil-headed lights, an entrance with a shouldered lintel, and a two-light east window. The east gable of the nave has a bell-cote, and the chancel is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a three-light east window, a south traceried light, and a high-placed small cusped light in the sanctuary.

Inside, the church features an arcade supported by round columns with hood moulds that have angel stops. The roof has collar-trusses with laminated arch braces resting on corbels. A round font displays interlaced blind arcading, and there is a dole cupboard mounted on the wall, possibly from the 18th century, with turned balusters on the doors. The interior includes four brass chandeliers, and the chancel arch has corbels with figures, including a sower on the south side. The pulpit has canted ends and a cusped niche. The chancel contains a north organ loft with painted organ pipes and case, and the panelled roof is painted with the IHS monogram and the eagle of St. John, with a cornice featuring Tudor flower ornament. The east wall has timber panelling, and there are two cusped sedilia with a central colonnette on the south side. The walls are decorated with panels featuring the IHS monogram and four paintings in bolection moulded frames. A Corona Lucis is located at the west end of the chancel. The church is notable for its excellent series of stained glass windows, including those in the north aisle by Morris and Co. (Burne-Jones) from 1873, the chancel south-east window from 1877 and the north vestry window from 1870 by C.E. Kempe, and several others by Clayton and Bell from the late 1850s to the 1870s.