Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist, located on Jackson Lane in Wentbridge, was built in 1878 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. This small church is constructed from rock-faced magnesian limestone and features red tile roofs. It has a cruciform plan with a crossing tower and is designed in a 12th-century northern French style.

The church has a short, buttressed three-bay nave. The gabled south porch at the first bay includes a two-centred arched outer doorway, which is adorned with set-in shafts that have stiff-leaf capitals, although these are now heavily eroded. The arch features deeply-undercut moulding with dogtooth decoration and a hoodmould. Above the door, there is a lozenge carved with the emblem of the Evangelist. Each side wall of the nave has small coupled lancets, while the nave itself contains single and coupled lancets with hoodmoulds.

The transepts are highlighted by tall coupled lancets with quatrefoils above, and they have gable copings topped with apex crosses. The south transept features a two-centred arched moulded doorway on its east side. The short apsidal chancel includes a sill band and a single lancet on each side. The crossing tower, which is of one stage, has three deeply-recessed lancet belfry louvres on each side, linked by hoodmoulds, and is topped with a steeply-pitched pyramidal roof. Inside, the church boasts a rib-vaulted crossing and apse.