Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church dating from 1851-3, designed by the architect R C Carpenter. It is constructed of squared rubble stone with ashlar dressings and has a red-tile roof with a crested ridge. The church consists of a nave, chancel, north and south aisles, a south porch, a vestry, and a church hall.

The aisle and chancel windows feature two-centred arches and are two-light designs with Geometrical tracery. The east window has a two-centred arch and three ogee-headed lights with a rose motif above. The west gable includes a central projection flanked by buttresses, with a window similar to the others above the roofline to support a gabled bell-turret containing two bells hung within open-pointed arches. Angle-buttresses define the aisles and chancel. The gabled south porch has a double-chamfered doorway with a pointed arch, a trefoil-shaped window above, and a cross on the gable apex. A lean-to vestry with trefoil-arched windows is located on the north side of the chancel, connected to the church hall by an enclosed passage.

The contemporary church hall is a small rectangular building with a chamfered plinth, three trefoil-headed windows on the north side, a segmental-headed window of two ogee-headed lights with quatrefoils, and a projecting chimneystack with offsets on the west side.

Inside, the nave has four pointed, double-chamfered arches on octagonal columns on each side. A similar arch spans the chancel, supporting a wooden rood beam inscribed with "by thy cross and passion good lord deliver us," and featuring a crucifix with attendant figures. Flamboyant ogee-headed niches flank the chancel, one likely being a piscina. Mosaics by Salviati are located across the east wall of the chancel, below the window, and the chancel ceiling is painted wood. The fittings include an octagonal limestone font with Gothic side-panels and a black marble shaft of quatrefoil section; a rear gallery with a cast-iron winding staircase; four-branched gilded metal candlesticks attached to the nave piers; a gilded metal pulpit with open scrolled tracery; and gilded metal gates and a screen across the chancel arch with open scrollwork below a rectangular grille. A set of painted and gilded organ pipes, with carved and painted angel figures on the underside, are on the north wall of the chancel. An ornately carved Gothic altar piece by Charles Francis Hansom was added after 1853.