Church Of St John

The Church of St. John is a large parish church built in 1880 by F.S. Waller, with the chancel and transepts added in 1885 by S. Gambier-Parry. It features rock face rubble stone brought to courses with ashlar dressings and a tiled roof with double gables on both transepts. The church is designed in the shape of a Latin cross with an apsed east end. The nave has four bays and tall two-light windows with plate tracery, separated by buttresses with drafted margins. There are angle buttresses on the transepts and a gabled porch at the north-west end. The west end showcases two three-light windows with geometrical tracery.

Inside, the church has a complex steep timber strutted collar roof supported by stone corbels, featuring wind bracing and elaborately decorated timber work above the chancel. An oak reredos, carved as a memorial for the 1914-18 War by Sir Charles Nicholson, is present, along with a fine 20th-century oak lectern, pulpit, and a screen in the north transept. The east window has stained glass from 1958 by Francis Stephens, and there is a carved stone chancel screen and a stone piscina to the right of the reredos.