The Church Of The Immaculate Conception St John The Worker

The Church of the Immaculate Conception St John The Worker is a Roman Catholic church that was originally a private chapel for Scarthingwell Hall. Built in 1854, it was designed by Atkinson for Lord Hawkes and is styled in the Neo-Norman manner. The church is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs. It has a nave with an apsidal chancel, a moulded plinth, and a moulded sill band, along with a Lombard frieze at the eaves. The gables are ashlar coped, and the western gable is topped with a small square turret. The apsidal east end has seven tall round-headed lancets, while the nave is illuminated by four tall round-headed windows, each divided into two lights with quatrefoils.

To the south of the western gallery, there is a 20th-century vestry and a small gabled porch. The west gable wall includes three round-headed niches and a smaller niche in the gable. Inside, the church boasts lavish plasterwork decoration, featuring a nibbed plaster vault in the apse, an ornate round chancel arch, and a segment-arched plaster vault over the nave with four round arches surrounding the windows. The western wooden gallery, supported by a three-arched western arcade, is accessed by a small staircase and currently houses an organ, although it was likely designed as the family pew. The gallery also has a ribbed round-arched plaster vault.