Church Of St John

The Church of St John, built between 1843 and 1848 by William Hurst and W B Moffat, was funded by the Aire and Calder Navigation Company. It features a cruciform plan constructed of ashlar and Welsh slate, comprising a five-bay nave with a south porch, two-bay transepts, a crossing tower, and a two-bay chancel. There is a polygonal vestry located at the angle of the chancel and north transept. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, the church includes pointed windows with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmoulds, and all bays are marked by stepped buttresses that end in gabled pinnacles.

The west end showcases a five-light transomed window, while the nave has two-light windows. The porch features a pointed doorway with a statue niche above it. The transepts have five-light windows with transoms on the north and south sides, and two-light windows on the east and west. A pointed doorway beneath a gable is located to the east of the north transept. The three-stage tower has two trefoil-cusped lancets on each face of the first stage, a clock face flanked by four blind panels with trefoil-cusped tracery on the second stage, and two two-light belfry openings on the third stage, separated by stepped buttresses. The tower is adorned with angle buttresses, an openwork parapet featuring gargoyles, and eight pinnacles, culminating in a broach spire with flying buttresses.

There is a staircase turret with a pointed door, lancets, and a hexagonal cap at the angle between the chancel and south transept. The single-storey vestry to the north has a pointed doorway and two-light windows, along with a blind parapet. The chancel contains two-light windows on the north and south sides, and a five-light transomed window on the east. Stone copings are present on the gables, with plain coped parapets throughout.

The interior has been significantly altered in the 1980s, including the installation of an unsympathetic stripped pine ceiling, altar, and altar rails. However, it retains a fine original wrought-iron screen to the choir and a reredos in the Decorated style.