Church Of St John

The Church of St John is a parish church built in 1848 by Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury. It is constructed of coursed and squared limestone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church is designed in the lancet style and consists of a six-bay nave with a lower chancel, a south-west porch, and a north-west vestry. Notable architectural elements include a plinth, buttresses with a single offset, diagonal corners, corbelled eaves, verge parapets, and a projecting gabled bellcote at the west end that extends to ground level, featuring a chamfered-arched bell-opening.

The nave has lancet windows with returned hood moulds, and the south-west doorway, located in the second bay from the west, has a chamfered archway with a pair of boarded doors. The gabled porch has a chamfered archway, a hood mould with carved-head stops, and side benches. The north-west vestry, also in the second bay from the west, has a lancet window to the north and a chamfered-arched six-panelled door to the east. There is a diamond-leaded lancet in the bellcote projection to the west, with a blind lancet above it.

The chancel features a triple stepped-lancet east window with a returned hood mould. Inside, there is a double chamfered chancel arch and a hammer beam nave roof with arch-bracing to the collar. Fittings include a five-bay west gallery, a six-panelled vestry door, an octagonal stone font with a quatrefoil panelled bowl, a circular stem, a large octagonal base, and a trefoiled wooden top. The octagonal wooden pulpit has blind trefoil-arched panels, and the wooden chancel screen consists of ogee arches with pierced spandrels, a frieze, and cresting, along with a panelled sanctuary. Various mid-19th century monuments are present, and the stained glass in the east window, dating from around 1848, is likely by David Evans of Shrewsbury and commemorates Charlotte Oakes and Thomas Oakes.

The parish of Newcastle was created in 1849 from the larger parish of Clun.