Church Of St John The Apostle

The Church of St John the Apostle is an Anglican parish church located on Church Hill in Sheepscombe. It was built in 1820 by John Wight and underwent alterations in 1872 by Francis Niblett. The church is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a stone slate roof with coped gables.

The layout includes a nave, a south aisle, a chancel, a vestry, and a small west tower above the porch. The west front showcases two Y-tracery 2-light windows with drip stones, flanking a projecting tower that has a smaller single light window above a 4-centred head door set in a square label mould. The tower also features a clock and a 2-light Y-tracery louvred opening for the bell stage, topped with a parapet adorned with four pinnacles and an ogee leaded cupola. The flanks of the tower are accentuated by two lofty pinnacles on square buttresses, which have saddle back coping and a string course.

To the right of the tower is an added aisle with a cusped lancet window. The south side of the church has three bays with 2-light windows under square heads, each with hoods, and a small door at the east end. The left return features three 2-light windows with Y-tracery. The east window is a 3-light design flanked by square buttresses with gabled cappings, and there are two 2-light windows in the Decorated style on the south side.

A notable feature of the church is the 19th-century west door, which is carved with the inscription: "The Rich and the Poor meet together. The Lord is the maker of them all," all in capital letters.

Inside, the church has a small gallery in the tower with quatrefoil openings in a stone balustrade, a shallow chancel with a facetted roof, and a nave that features a king post roof and a 4-bay arcade. The pews are made of pitch pine, and there is an octagonal font dated 1849. The church also has a list of incumbents dating back to 1821 and various memorial tablets. The east window was glazed in 1872.