Church Of St John

The Church of St John is a church dating to 1857, designed by JH Hakewill. Subsequent additions and alterations were made in 1859 by AW Morant, 1866, 1878 by Bottle & Olley, and a restoration occurred in 1989. The church is constructed of flint with red brick and ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs. The building comprises a nave, apsed chancel, and a south porch, with a south aisle added in 1859. Further expansion included extending the nave westwards in 1866, adding a north aisle, transept, and north chancel aisle in 1878, and a south transept and vestry in 1884.

The exterior presents three gables to the west end, featuring triple paired lancet windows to the nave, double paired lancets to the north aisle, and a single paired lancet to the south aisle. Further paired lancet windows are present on the north and south aisle flanks. The transept facades have paired lancets beneath a foiled plate-tracery circle. The south transept includes a polygonal turret topped with an open lantern under a pyramid roof, which was relocated in 1884. The apsed east end features lancet windows. A hexagonal vestry, linked by a covered passage, is situated to the east, featuring two lancets to each facet and a pyramid roof with a lantern.

The interior's hexagonal vestry has a boarded ceiling. The nave incorporates a 6-bay arcade with circular columns on waterholding bases, featuring sea-weed capitals on the north side and stiff-leaf capitals on the south. Low pointed arches have red brick banding. Scissor-braced nave and aisle roofs are boarded to the north aisle. A roll-moulded chancel and sanctuary arch are present. The sanctuary has clustered colonnettes supporting the lancet windows. A plain octagonal font rests on clustered keeled columns.