Church Of St John Of Beverley

The Church of St John of Beverley is a Grade II listed building constructed in 1799, with alterations made in 1873. It is built of brick in English garden wall bond, featuring an ashlar plinth and dressings, and has a Westmorland slate roof. The church includes a west tower, a three-bay nave with a south porch and a north vestry, and a long single-bay chancel. The tower has three stages with ashlar bands, rectangular slit windows on the second stage, and round-headed belfry openings with an ashlar sill band on the third stage. The tower is topped with an ashlar cornice and embattled parapets, and there is an ashlar urinal located at the angle of the tower and the south side of the nave.

The nave features a porch with a 19th-century pointed doorway and a hipped roof on the south side, while the vestry has a pair of square-headed windows on the north side. The nave contains two-light pointed Gothic windows that were inserted in 1873, with doors and windows adorned with returned hoodmoulds. The east end of the church has a two-light Gothick window. The nave roof is stone-coped with a gable to the west and hipped to the east, while the chancel roof is hipped to the east.

The interior of the church is very plain. A plaque above the door indicates that this church was built on the site of the ancient parish church of Wressell in the 39th year of the reign of King George III, in the year 1799. It also lists notable figures associated with the church, including the Right Honourable George O'Brien, Earl of Egremont, Lord of the Manor, John Bacon Sawrey Morritt, Esquire, the impropriator, and the Reverend George Ion, the vicar, along with church wardens Richard Waterworth of Wressell and James Craven of Newsham.