Church Of St John

The Church of St John is a Grade II listed church built between 1859 and 1865 by the architects Mallinson and Healey. Designed in the Early English style, it features a cruciform plan with a northwest tower and a southeast vestry. The church is constructed of chiselled sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings and has a slate roof.

The three-stage buttressed tower sits on a tall plinth and includes a studded west door with decorative hinges, set beneath a pointed arch supported by slender shafts. The second stage of the tower has a roundel with trefoil tracery, while the third stage features two-light louvred bell-openings beneath pointed head-stopped hood-moulds. The tower is topped with a broach spire that has lucarnes, a weathervane, and a cross.

The nave has a west window with four lights and foiled intersecting tracery, with north and south nave windows of two lights that alternate between geometric and foiled intersecting tracery. The transept windows have three lights with geometric tracery, positioned between buttresses, and the east window consists of four lights with geometric tracery. All windows are adorned with pointed head-stopped hood-moulds. A string course at the level of the west door impost becomes a continuous sill band around the entire church.

The vestry features a pointed door to the south and a two-light mullion and transom window to the west. Coped gables with gable crosses are present throughout the structure, along with a central ridge stack on the vestry. Inside, the original fittings are intact, and the east window was created by Hardman.