Church Of St John The Divine

The Church of St John the Divine is a church built between 1820 and 1821 by Sir Robert Smirke, with an apse added in 1863 by GM Hills. It is constructed of rock-faced limestone ashlar with dressings and features a hipped slate roof in the Italianate style. The building has a rectangular plan with recessed corners and a west tower.

The exterior includes a projecting square apse with clasping paired pilasters, an entablature, and a pediment. It has a moulded round-arched window that contains a Venetian window with five oculi. The church features a plain plinth, plat band, first-floor sill, and impost bands over the windows, along with a cornice and parapet. The ground floor windows have cambered heads, while the first-floor windows have round-arched heads, and there are blind windows on each side of the apse.

The north side has eight bays, with the western bay set back, and the west end has three bays, with the middle bay set forward. This middle bay features a doorway with a plain architrave and cornice leading to a two-leaf six-panel door with flush panels. The outer bays have plain doorways and round-arched upper windows. The tower is plain and square with two stages, including a clock on the lower stage and round-arched louvred windows on the upper stage, capped with a blocking course. The central porch on the north side has pilasters supporting an entablature and double panelled doors.

The interior has not been inspected but is noted to have galleried sides and ends supported by fluted Doric columns, a moulded front, and a two-centre chancel arch on corbels, flanked by painted flat buttresses and a panelled ceiling. The east window was added in 1868 by Alexander Gibbs. The church was built as a Commissioners church.