Church Of St John

The Church of St John, built around 1880 by architects Hine and Odgers, is located on High Street in Delabole. It is constructed of snecked stone rubble with brick and granite dressings, featuring steeply pitched slate roofs adorned with decorative fish scale slates. The chancel roof is lower than that of the nave, and there is a lean-to roof over the south aisle. The church's layout includes a nave, chancel, a three-bay south aisle, and a vestry on the north side of the chancel. The entrance is located in the tower at the west end of the south aisle.

The exterior showcases triple lancet windows on the nave, chancel, and south aisle, along with a gabled porch featuring a two-centred arch at the west end of the nave. The tower, which has two stages, includes set back angle buttresses and a pyramid roof, with two-centred arched openings and triple lancet belfry lights fitted with slate louvres.

Inside, the walls are rendered and painted in the chancel. The nave and chancel have scissor-braced roofs, and the south aisle features a three-bay arcade supported by squat piers with moulded capitals. Notable interior elements include a carved octagonal font, a 19th-century timber pulpit painted by Jack Bucknall, a socialist vicar of Delabole in the 1920s, and a 20th-century altar and candlesticks made of Delabole slate.