Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church built between 1836 and 1838, designed by ME Hadfield. It was altered around 1890 by EM Gibbs, with late 20th-century additions to the north and east. The church is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, and has slate and lead roofs. It is built in the Gothic Revival style.

The plan includes a chancel, porches, a nave, a west tower with a spire, chapels, and meeting rooms. The single bay chancel has a graduated triple lancet window to the east; flanking it are lean-to porches with round-arched windows. A south porch has a round-arched doorway. To the north-east is a single-story octagonal addition with a flat roof, connected by a corridor featuring a transomed 5-light wooden-framed window. A double door is situated on the north side. The 7-bay nave features a plinth, buttresses, moulded eaves, coped gables, and a gable stack on the east side, with seven tall single lancets with hoodmoulds on each side. The west end has diagonal buttresses topped with pinnacles. A round-arched doorway is located at the west end of the north aisle.

The square west tower has two stages, with angle buttresses to the lower stage and clasping buttresses above, topped with pinnacles. The lower stage has a Norman-style doorway with dogtooth ornament under a steep gable, and round-arched windows on the north and south sides. The upper stage has three tall lancet bell-openings with a clock above. The octagonal broach spire has ornamental bands, a single tier of four gabled lucarnes, and a finial.

North of the church are two linked mid-20th-century octagonal additions, constructed of yellow brick with buttressed blue brick basements. The larger addition to the east has a square truncated pyramidal roof. To the south is a tall 5-light window, and to the east, a flat-roofed projection with a single lancet. A smaller addition to the west has a flat roof and a similar 3-light window. The corridor adjoining the church has two tall single windows. The interior was not inspected.