Church Of St John

The Church of St John is a parish church originally dating from the 12th century, with remodels from the 15th century. The west tower was built in 1765, and the church was restored in 1890 by H.J. Green, the Diocesan architect. The structure is primarily built of flint with ashlar dressings and some carstone, while the tower is made of brick. The roofs are covered with black glazed pantiles.

The tower features three stages with stepped diagonal western buttresses that rise to the belfry stage. It has a two-light cusped Y tracery window on the west side, along with blank square recesses in the ringing chamber and string courses between the floors. A datestone from 1765 is located on the west side. The belfry has four-centred louvred windows and a corbelled string course beneath a plain parapet. The nave has windows with three lights under four-centred arches in the Perpendicular style, with four on the south side and two on the north. There is a brick and flint stepped buttress to the west of the arched south door, and timber tie plates at the eaves. The chancel has two two-light square-headed cusped windows on the south side, with no windows on the north. A brick dentil eaves cornice from 1890 is present, along with brick and flint buttresses at the east end. The east window has three lights with cusping, and below it is a memorial plaque to George Brown from 1757. A semi-circular grated hole in the north chancel leads to a crypt, and there is a bulge of rood stairs at the north nave and at the north-west corner with carstone quoins. The gabled north porch is partly rendered, featuring a double chamfered arch and hood, along with blocked side windows and a dentil eaves cornice. The inner doorway, dating from the 18th century, has keeled mouldings on moulded bases and a hood with label stops.

Inside, the church features a wave moulded tower arch with semi-circular responds and polygonal capitals and bases. The octagonal font from the 15th century has a stem with two ogeed lights on each panel and a bowl that is crudely carved with angels and panels of shields within cusping. The painted Royal Arms are displayed over the south door. Most of the seating dates from 1890, though three benches retain six 15th-century poppyhead bench ends. The roof is scissor braced and was added in 1890. The chancel screen from the 16th century has two bays on either side of a four-centred opening, with each bay further divided into two. It features a traceried dado and a continuous frieze of ogeed tracery at the head. The chancel arch is double chamfered, and the chancel roof is plastered.