Church Of St John And St Mary Magdalene

The Church of St John and St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed church built between 1914 and 1916 by architect A. Y. Nutt. It is constructed of reinforced concrete with exposed aggregate and features a pantile roof. The church has a five-bay nave with aisles that surround a square tower at the south-west corner, and a two-bay apsidal chancel that includes a south chapel and gabled projections to the north. The design reflects a simplified Italianate style.

The west front includes a shallow projecting porch flanked by small rectangular windows, above which are tall round-headed lights. A central sculpture of Christ on the Cross is set beneath a moulded segmental canopy. The flanking strips extend to the verge and are crossed by a band at the eaves level. The tower, located to the right, has three stages featuring two rectangular windows in the lower stages and a tall arcade of four round-headed openings on each side of the upper stage. It is topped with a hipped roof that supports a large clock in decorative woodwork beneath a domed cupola.

The nave features windows arranged in groups of three, two, three, two, and three, all of which are round-headed with iron glazing bars. Pilaster-strips between the bays reinforce the structure. The lower chancel mirrors this style, with four round-headed lights in the north chapel and small three-light windows in the apse. Inside, there is a gallery at the west end and five-bay arcades with tall round arches, each bay supported by a concrete tie-beam. The interior also boasts a heavily-carved hexagonal wooden pulpit from the 18th century, of Flemish design, and an imposing concrete baldicchino with tall Corinthian columns and imposts beneath an open segmental pediment. This church is noted as an early experiment in ferro-concrete construction, now showing some of its faults, and the tower serves as a notable landmark.