Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a church built in 1859/60 by Charles Woodyer. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and tracery, and has gabled plain tile roofs. The church is laid out with a chancel, containing an organ chamber and vestry to the north, and a nave with a south-west porch and a west bellcote. It is designed in the Middle Pointed style.

The exterior features offset buttresses with stone gablets to the chancel; the church is encircled by a band of polychrome brick in black and white with a frieze of white trefoiled panels. The chancel's east window is a three-light window with an octofoil light. The south wall has two trefoiled lancets and an unusual triangular architrave framing a multi-foiled round window. The north wall has lean-to and gabled roofs to the organ chamber and vestry, these featuring a Caermarvon-arched doorway and quatrefoil windows. The nave has four-light windows, all with distinctive cusping to the tracery. The porch has lateral buttresses flanking a pointed moulded arch with a chamfered outer order and engaged columns; it features a studded door set in an early 14th-century style pointed moulded arch. The west elevation has offset buttresses to paired colonettes supporting a chamfered pointed arch framing an unusual triangular window with cusped tracery, which extends to a gabled bellcote with an arched bell opening. It includes an 18th-century weathervane.

Inside, the chancel has a waggon roof with moulded ribs, while the nave has an arch-braced roof with curved wind braces and upper king posts. Floors are made of mid-19th-century glazed coloured tiles. The nave and chancel walls are richly decorated with structural polychromy in red, white, and black, with trellising above a blind arcading on the nave walls. The chancel includes a piscina, wrought-iron openwork to the altar rail, excellent mid-19th century stained glass by Hardman, and a triple chancel arch made of limestone with quatrefoil shafts and moulded capitals. An octagonal limestone font with a black marble band is supported on a central compound pier encircled by an open arcade, and supported on small red marble shafts. The font has an unusual cover with a dove counterweight to an elaborate wrought-iron lifting frame. Memorials include mid-to-late 19th-century brasses and tablets, and an early 17th-century brass effigy to the Wyncoll family in the north wall of the nave.