Church Of St John Evangelist

The Church of St John Evangelist is a parish church built in 1872 by architects Cory and Ferguson from Carlisle, with restoration completed in 1900. It is constructed from snecked sandstone blocks, featuring quoins and buttresses, and has a chamfered plinth at the chancel. The church has graduated slate roofs with stone copings and kneelers, and includes a chapel outshut on either side of the chancel. Designed in the Romanesque style, it consists of a west tower, a nave with aisles, and a chancel.

The three-stage tower has paired belfry openings beneath an arch that features decorative trellis work in the spandrels, with blind recesses on either side that are similarly decorated. A stair turret projects from the south side of the tower at the junction with the nave, which has an external door. The main entrance on the north side of the nave features four semicircular orders, with the three outer orders being decoratively carved and supported by waterleaf capitals on en-delit shafts. Each bay of the nave has a single aisle and clerestory window, while the chancel has three stepped windows at the east end. All windows are round-headed and set under hoodmoulds.

Inside, the church has a whitewashed brick interior. The nave arcade consists of four bays with semicircular arches supported by waterleaf capitals on quatrefoil piers. The aisles feature quadrant vaults, while the main vessel has a pointed barrel vault, both with transverse arches. The chancel is topped with an intersecting rib vault. To the left of the chancel arch in the nave is a polygonal carved wood pulpit, with a matching vicar's stall to the right. In the baptistry located on the ground floor of the tower, there is a carved stone font supported by five marble shafts.