Church Of St John

St John’s Church is an Anglican church dating from 1874, designed by John Oldrid Scott. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, and has a clay plain tile roof. The building is laid out with a nave and chancel, a bellcote above the chancel arch, a four-bay north aisle with a porch at the west end, and originally included a chapel at the east end of the aisle. The architectural style is Victorian Gothic.

The exterior features stone four-light stepped lancet windows on the north and south sides, set within large brick two-centred arches, each with a brick hoodmould and a stone string at the springing. A large five-light east window is flanked by prominent corner pinnacles. A gabled bellcote rises over the chancel, and the walls are punctuated by large brick buttresses with weathered set-offs. The west end has two pairs of lancet windows, topped by a rose window set within a moulded two-centred arch. A gabled porch is positioned at the corner with the north aisle, featuring a cusped arch and a wheel window on its north side.

Inside, a four-bay stone north arcade has double-chamfered two-centred arches supported by octagonal piers. The walls are plastered, with stone rear-arches and a moulded stone chancel arch featuring paired colonnette corbels. The aisle and nave have an open common-rafter roof, with a boarded ceiling over the east end, incorporating a cusped wooden arch. The chancel roof is similarly boarded with ribs. A polygonal carved stone pulpit and a font with a square bowl on shafts are also present. Original choir stalls and nave benches remain, although seating and the chapel in the south aisle have been removed, and a vestry has been built into the west end of the nave. Memorial stained glass windows are incorporated throughout.