Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a church built in 1809 by H H Seward for the Earl of Ailesbury. It is constructed from ashlar sandstone and features a stone slate roof. The church consists of a nave and chancel combined, with aisles, a south porch, a north baptistry, and a west tower.

The tower has offset angle buttresses and is divided into four stages, with one, two, one, and three-light openings, topped with an embattled parapet. The west face includes a pointed doorway in an Elizabethan-style flat-headed surround with a hood-mould, along with a plaque noting that the church was built to commemorate the fiftieth year of the reign of George III, and it also features a clock. The gabled south porch has diagonal buttresses, a similar doorway, and a quatrefoil in the gable.

The nave and chancel aisle are six bays long, separated by offset buttresses. There are three windows with four lights and uncusped Y-tracery, each with hood-moulds and label stops. In the fifth bay, there is a vestry doorway similar to the others, and in the sixth bay, a late-19th century single-light window with five cusps. On the north side in the sixth bay, there is a three-light lancet window leading to the organ chamber. The east end features offset diagonal buttresses and a five-light uncusped Perpendicular-style east window, along with an embattled parapet. The baptistry has a two-light Geometric north window.

Inside, the church has four-bay arcades with four-centred Perpendicular-style arches supported by tall octagonal piers. The chancel arch is also in the Perpendicular style and features Tudor flowers on the soffit. The sanctuary walls are lined with fine late 19th-century encaustic tiles depicting the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments, along with a tiled reredos and tiled floor. Above the doorway into the tower, there is a plaster coat of arms of Queen Victoria in a quatrefoil, and the arms of George III are located above the vestry door. This new church replaced the old church of St Martin at Low Thorpe.