Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church built in 1844 by Edward Blore. It features squared coursed masonry with ashlar dressings and a slate roof, designed in an Early English style. The church has a cruciform plan, comprising a four-bay nave, narrow aisles, transepts, a chancel, a south porch, and a south-west tower.

The porch is low and gabled, with square-set buttresses. The tower, which has three stages, starts with a square base that has square-set gabled buttresses. It transitions to an octagonal second and third stage, with the third stage made of ashlar and featuring one lancet window on each face, which is louvred. Above this, there are corbelled eaves and a spire with roll moulding at the angles. The aisles have a plinth, a plain string course at sill level, tall lancet windows, and corbelled eaves, but no clerestory. The transept has a door beneath a central lancet and a quatrefoil in the gable, with large kneelers supporting the gable copings. The chancel is semi-octagonal and buttressed, with its height relating to the nave arcade. All lancet windows in the church have hood moulds.

Internally, the walls are painted brick, except for the chancel, which is plastered. The kneelers and some voussoirs of the chancel arch are rock-faced. The arcade is formed by square timber posts that support queen strut trusses. The crossing features larger hollow octagonal timber posts that carry arch-braced collar trusses. There is a western gallery on cast iron columns, and there were formerly galleries in the transepts, with the organ now located in the north transept. The chancel roof has ribs at the angles that rise from stone corbels, and a chancel screen was added around 1913.