Church Of St John

The Church of St John is a Grade II* listed building constructed in 1849. It is made of granite rubble with limestone dressings. The chancel and vestry have plain-tile roofs, while the nave and porch feature 20th-century cement tile roofs. The church has coped gable parapets, with the chancel displaying twin gablet kneelers and the nave and porch having moulded kneelers. The structure includes a 2-bay chancel, a 4-bay nave, a south-west porch, and a south-east vestry, all designed in an early 14th-century Gothic Revival style.

The chancel is supported by buttresses with two offsets that are flush with the east wall. Its east window consists of three lights with bar tracery, a splay sill course, and a hood mould with head stops. Bar tracery is present throughout the building. The south side has one trefoiled lancet, while the north side has two. All windows feature hood moulds with return stops. The vestry has a pitched roof topped with an octagonal pinnacle and includes trefoiled lancets, with pairs on the east and a single on the south. A chamfered west doorway leads into the vestry, which has a plank door.

The nave is supported by western angle and side buttresses, and the porch has buttresses that are flush with the front. The porch doorway features nook shafts, an arch of two moulded orders, and a hood mould with head stops, leading to a plank door. The nave has two 2-light windows on the south and three on the north, all trefoiled lancets. The west front has a central buttress and two 2-light windows, with a gable that includes a sexfoil window. A west bellcote features a gable and a chamfered trefoiled arch.

Inside, the church is plastered with arched-brace roofs. The chancel roof is moulded and supported by stone angel corbels. The chancel arch consists of two chamfered orders, with the inner order featuring half-octagonal responds and moulded capitals, along with a hood mould with head stops. Notable fittings include painted metal Commandment boards flanking the chancel arch, a traceried stone pulpit, an octagonal stone font, and original pews. The east window, created in 1887 by Edward Swinfen Harris, features stained glass. The church was built as a chapel of ease to Monks Kirby.