Church of St John the Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is an Anglican parish church dating back to the early 13th century. Significant alterations and additions occurred in the late 13th century with the west tower and spire, the 15th century with nave aisle windows, and in 1845 with the clerestory windows designed by Francis Niblett. The church is constructed of fine Cotswold oolite, with substantial use of tufa, marlstone for the clerestory walls, and stone slates for the nave roof at a very low pitch, Welsh slate for the chancel, and copper sheet for the north aisle roof.

The church comprises a west tower with spire, a nave, north and south aisles in four bays, a deep chancel, a two-storey south porch, and a two-story sacristy on the north side of the chancel. The nave parapet features a pierced interlocking mouchette pattern, while the south aisle and porch have a parapet and a ball flower string course with prominent gargoyles. Nave windows are three-light perpendicular style, the chancel windows are two-light decorated style, and the east end window is three-light. The church features good two-leaf plank doors with strap hinges, with a round-headed inner porch doorway surrounded by carved trefoil leaves. The west tower has three stages, with pinnacles at 45 degrees, an open 14th-century parapet, and an octagonal spire with lunettes on the cardinal faces. A small 14th-century window is located on the west face of the tower, alongside niches, carved shields, and a clock face. The tower has diagonal buttresses with five offsets and a plinth, and a stair clamp in the north-east corner.

The interior has a four-bay nave with rich moulded trumpet capitals over keeled shafts, an arch-braced roof with traceried trusses, and lean-to aisle roofs. There are twelve carved angel heads in the north aisle and sixteen in the south aisle. The tower arch is very tall, with a pierced balustrade above it. The tower vault is octagonal and constructed of stone. The clerestory walls are in ashlar with flat four-centred arches to three-light 19th-century windows, with the wall below plastered. The chancel has sedilia under a stopped string, a piscina in the south wall and north, and a pointed barrel vault with a 19th-century carved cornice. Remains of medieval glass are found in the east window and north aisle. Floors are quarry tile, and there are 19th-century pews. Other features include a Jacobean hexagonal pulpit, an oak eagle lectern, a lead font bowl from 1664 on a stone base, and some medieval tiles.

The church is described as a very coherent and important example of Early Gothic architecture. David Verey considered it to be "Probably the best example in the county of the Early Gothic Style of the C13”.