Church Of St John

The Church of St John is a Commissioners' Church built between 1844 and 1845 by Thomas Smith. It is constructed of plum brick with yellow brick dressings and features stone-coped, shallow-pitched gabled roofs made of Welsh slate, which have carved faces on the kneelers. The church has a cruciform plan, with a vestry located to the north of the short chancel, extruded turrets at the west angles of the transepts, and a west porch. Designed in the Neo-Norman style, the building's bays are recessed and defined by yellow brick pilaster buttresses, which have corbels supporting a frieze beneath a blocking course.

The one-bay chancel includes three graduated lancet windows with waterleaf capitals on engaged shafts. Each of the two-bay transepts features lancets with hood moulds and head stops above engaged shafts, also with waterleaf capitals and chevron arches. The north and south gables of the transepts have three plain graduated lancets. The nave has four bays on both the north and south elevations, showcasing similar lancet windows and carved heads beneath a chevron cornice. The west gable continues the cornice as a frieze, featuring a bellcote set on a projecting bay, flanked by similar lancets and a doorway in a gabled porch.

Inside, the church has plastered walls, with the chancel boasting a coffered ceiling, engaged shafts supporting a fine late 19th-century stained-glass window, a panelled dado, and a chamfered chancel arch set on engaged shafts with scalloped capitals. Similar arches are found in the transepts. The pews are made of plain pitch-pine, and there is an octagonal font with foliate capitals on marble shafts. The roof trusses feature three central posts that conceal wrought-iron tie bolts. The Church of St John is a notable example of a Neo-Norman Commissioners' Church.