Church Of St John The Evangelist And All Saints

The Church of St John the Evangelist and All Saints is an Anglican parish church. It was first recorded in 1291, with a 14th-century porch and chancel, and the remainder of the structure dating to the 15th century. The church is constructed of Ham stone, cut and squared with ashlar dressings, with the tower partially rendered. The chancel, vestry, and porch have Welsh slate roofs behind stepped coped gables, while the nave has a nearly-flat lead sheet roof behind battlemented parapets. The building comprises a 2-bay chancel, a crossing tower without transepts, and a 3-bay nave, along with an added south porch and a north-east vestry.

The chancel has no plinth or buttresses, featuring a 15th-century 3-light traceried east window set in a hollowed, pointed arch with a plain stopped label. Two 14th-century 2-light traceried windows, possibly recut in the 19th century, are on the south side, with labels, one featuring headstops and the other blockstops. On the north side are a 2-light flat-arched window with a deep, square label in a slightly hollowed, chamfered recess, and the projecting vestry with a simple lancet window in its north gable and a pointed-arched doorway on its west side.

The three-stage tower has a tall plinth, string courses, gargoyles at the top, and battlemented parapets. It features offset buttresses with diagonal applied shaft bases for now-missing pinnacles. The tower's earlier 15th-century windows are traceried in hollowed recesses with headstop labels, intended to reflect the transept arches. There are 2-light flat-arched windows in recessed areas without labels on the north and south sides of the second stage, and matching 2-light pointed-arched windows all around the third stage. Windows on the second and third stages of the south side are set within rendered panels fitted with ornamental pierced stone frets, while the other windows have louvre baffles. An octagonal stair turret, taller than the remainder of the tower and crowned with a flagmast, is on the south-east corner.

The nave has a plinth, offset corner buttresses, and bay buttresses on the north side, topped with battlemented parapets over a plain string course. The side windows mirror those on the first stage of the tower. A wider 3-light west window is in a deep recess with a moulded headstop label, above a blocked pointed arch doorway with tablet-flowers to the jamb mouldings inset within a rectangular recess with carved spandrils. The porch is centrally located on the south side, with angled corner buttresses and a pointed, chamfered archway with a stilted outer order. 19th-century memorials are mounted on the east and west walls of the porch.

The interior, which was not accessible at the time of inspection, contains moulded but unpanelled tower arches, a 15th-century font, and largely 19th-century fittings. Fragments of medieval glass are found within the tracery of the north windows.