Church Of St John

The Church of St John is an Anglican church dating from the 13th to the 18th century. The building is constructed of flint with ashlar quoins, with the west tower being English bond brick. It features a plain tiled roof. The church comprises a nave with a north aisle, a chancel, a south chapel, a vestry and a west tower.

The 18th-century west tower has a pointed arch over the west door and two arrow slits to the north, south and west sides of its upper stage. It is topped with a pyramidal tiled roof. The south wall of the vestry and chapel contains a blocked pointed-arched door, now a window with wooden Y-tracery, alongside two chamfered square-headed windows. The east window of the south chapel is pointed with double-chamfered moulding and wooden Y-tracery. The chancel has two round-arched chamfered windows to its south side and a group of three stepped cusped lancets to its east. The east window of the north aisle has a 2-light square-headed window from the 16th century. The north aisle features a 2-light square-headed 16th-century window and a blocked pointed door showing an inserted window with wooden Y-tracery. A further 2-light square-headed 16th-century window is located at the west end of the north aisle.

Inside, the 2-bay nave has a double-chamfered pointed north arcade supported by early 13th-century cylindrical columns. The voussoirs of the arcade are alternating pink and grey stones. The nave has unusual roof trusses with arch-braced tie-beams, central carved bosses on corbels, curved principals that bow out to take purlins. A pointed double-chamfered arch, flanked by attached columns, leads to the 1-bay south chapel, which has an outshut roof with a tie-beam and braces to its principals. The chancel arch is a plain double-chamfered pointed arch. The chancel has the same roof as the nave and north aisle. A double-chamfered round arch on columns leads from the chancel to the north side chapel, which houses an organ. A trefoil-headed piscina is situated on the south side of the chancel. The church contains a fine Jacobean wooden pulpit with flat arabesque carving, and the Royal Arms of Queen Anne are displayed on the south wall of the nave. A good classical style wall tablet, made of limestone and slate, serves as a memorial to William Hubbard who died in 1792 and is positioned on the north wall of the chancel. A cylindrical limestone font dates back to the 13th century. The east window contains signed stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne of London, installed in 1900.