Church Of Saint John The Evangelist

The Church of Saint John the Evangelist is an Anglican parish church built in 1849, designed by Benjamin Ferrey. It is constructed of rough ashlar walls with ashlar dressings, featuring tiled roofs with coped gables. The church comprises a nave, a chancel with a vestry on the south side, and a north porch. A gabled bell-cote with two bell openings stands at the west end, and angle buttresses define the nave.

The north wall of the nave contains three two-light windows with geometrical tracery and hoodmoulds, interspersed by buttresses with gabled offsets. The north porch has both inner and outer doorways with moulded arches supported by shafts with moulded caps; the door features good ironwork. A moulded arched door with a hoodmould and two lancets with cinquefoil cusping are also present in the north wall of the chancel, alongside diagonal buttresses with gabled offsets. The east window is a three-light design with geometrical tracery and a hoodmould. The vestry, located on the south side, has a square-headed two-light window with Perpendicular tracery and a hoodmould in its east wall, and a similar window with reticulated tracery in its south wall. The south wall of the nave features two two-light windows and buttresses matching those on the north side, and a lancet with trefoil cusping and a hoodmould to the west. The west wall incorporates two lancets with traceried heads under a single relieving arch.

Inside, the walls are plastered. The chancel roof exhibits cusped principals and windbracing, with the principals resting on angel corbels. A two-bay arcade leads to the vestry, displaying octagonal columns with moulded capitals and moulded arches. An alabaster reredos is flanked by arcading. The nave's arch-braced collar beam roof is supported by moulded corbels featuring carved heads. A 19th-century stone pulpit is also present.

Several early 19th-century memorials adorn the north wall. A monument to George Baynard (1693) features a broken curved pediment, urns, scroll brackets, and a Coat of Arms. West of the doorway stands a monument to Rachel Baynard (1669), bearing a crest above the tablet and a primitive carving of a cherub’s head on the apron. The south wall houses a monument to Maria White (1718), flanked by Tuscan columns, an entablature with a broken curved pediment, and scroll brackets, with a Coat of Arms and a winged skull below the cill. A C12 stone font exhibits a circular, fluted bowl set on a 19th or 20th-century base.