Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a church dating to 1848, designed by Mallinson and Healey of Bradford, with a south tower added in 1928. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof. The church comprises a nave, a shallow chancel, a south aisle that partly incorporates the tower, and a west porch. The architecture is in a simple Early English style, with a Perpendicular style tower.

The nave has five bays of lancet windows alternating with single-light windows and a two-light window, with offset buttresses. The west end features two lancets above a circular window with a cinquefoil, topped with a coped gable featuring a prominent bellcote and clock. The three-light lancet east window of the chancel, which has a lower roofline, is set within a hoodmould. The south aisle, under a separate gabled roof, has four bays of lancet windows and a two-light east window with a quatrefoil, surmounted by a carved cross. The porch has a pointed-arched doorway with a rollmoulding, colonnettes, a hoodmould with carved-face stops and decorative wrought-iron gates topped with a copper cross, and a coped gable with kneelers. The three-stage embattled tower has a plinth, diagonal buttresses, and a vice set into the junction with the aisle, with two-light windows to the first and third (belfry) stages.

Inside, the five-bay nave has an arch-braced roof with convex struts. An open arcade leads to the south aisle, featuring pointed arches carried on octagonal columns with moulded capitals and representing remnants of a C14 church. The six-bay aisle has an organ in the first bay and a baptistry, retaining a C14 octagonal font from the earlier church in the fifth bay. A gallery is supported by oak octagonal columns with shallow trefoils. A pointed chancel arch with a chamfer leads to a two-bay chancel roof.

Furnishings include a richly decorated wrought-iron chancel screen with gates dating to approximately 1905, and a finely carved reredos from approximately 1901. The east window contains stained glass depicting the theme of charity. Other windows are by Barnett of York, dating to approximately 1849. There are renewed memorials from the earlier church, the finest being a marble memorial to Paul Meyer, a soldier, by Fisher of York, dating to 1763. A fine funeral hatchment is also present. The pulpit is from the 17th century and features carved oak panels, an octagonal shape on a pedestal base, and drop finials.