Church Of St John

The Church of St John is a Grade II listed church located in Hipswell, North Yorkshire. It was built in 1811 for Reverend James Robinson, with later work completed in 1893 by C.H. Fowler of Durham. The church is constructed of coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. It consists of a nave and a narrower sanctuary under a single roof, along with a west belfry, a south porch, and a north vestry. The building has quoins and the nave is divided into five bays.

The belfry includes a benchmark on its west face, a light vent, and a bellcote topped with a corbelled stone cupola. The porch features a 4-centred arched opening with the date "1811" inscribed on the apex stone, along with shaped kneelers and ashlar copings on the gable. The inner doorway has a chamfered ashlar surround with a 4-centred arch. There are four windows with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds from 1893, as well as stepped ashlar buttresses between the windows and diagonally at the corners. The sanctuary has a lancet window on the left bay, and the east window is a three-light design with cusped tracery from 1893. The north windows have simpler Y-tracery.

The north vestry, added in 1893, features an east lancet window and a west board door within a chamfered square-headed surround. Inside, there is a chamfered pointed arch leading to the sanctuary and a shouldered doorway from 1893 to the vestry. The vestry contains a 16th-century trefoiled head from a screen or window, featuring two and a half lights with carved spandrels. At the west end, there is an open five-light timber screen. A wall monument commemorates Reverend James Robinson, the church's patron, who died in 1817, created by Davies of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.