Church Of St John The Divine

The Church of St John the Divine is a parish church dating from 1884-85, designed by William Knight. Constructed primarily of rockfaced Bulwell stone with ashlar and blue lias dressings, it features concrete tile roofs with coped gables and a spired bell turret at the crossing. The architecture is in the Gothic Revival style.

The church plan incorporates an apsidal chancel, transepts, a nave with a clerestory and aisles, and a north porch. The exterior features a plinth, quoins, string courses, impost bands, buttresses to the nave and aisles, and a corbel table. Pointed arched windows are present throughout, some with simple tracery. The chancel has a deeply battered plinth and five single-light windows with billeted surrounds and shafts. The transepts have two lancet windows, with a round window above. The clerestory has four three-light windows on each side. A gabled bell turret is situated to the east of the south side, with a bracket supporting a further bell to the west. The west end has two high, two-light windows and a round window above. The aisles, with four bays each, have triple lancets in each bay, and traceried three-light windows in the west ends. The north porch has a moulded pointed arched doorway, shafts, and a double niche above.

Inside, the church is rendered. The chancel features two closely spaced double-chamfered arches with shaft imposts, and a triple niche above. It has a plastered wooden vault with ribs and wall shafts. To the north and south of the chancel are roll-moulded, pointed arched recesses, with organ pipes to the north and a 20th-century screen and door to the south. The apse contains five stained glass windows from 1892, by Powell. The nave has an arch braced roof with traceried spandrels and wall shafts on corbels. The arcades consist of four bays with double-chamfered arches and round and quatrefoil piers. The aisles feature plain lean-to roofs. The north aisle includes an internal porch and a Baroque-style organ case at the east end. The south aisle has a pointed arched niche at each end. Original fittings include a 19th-century altar rail, an octagonal font supported by clustered columns, and original benches. A traceried panelled wooden reredos, dating from 1940, is also present, alongside later 20th-century fittings. Memorials include an alabaster tablet from 1902.