Church Of St John

The Church of St John is a parish church built in 1851, originally serving as a chapelry. It was designed by architect John Pinch of Bath and constructed by builder Davis of Langport. The church is designed in the Early English style and features random rubble chert and local stone, with stepped buttresses of chert stone at each bay and Ham stone dressings. The building has slate roofs and coped verges.

The church consists of a five-bay aisless nave, a chancel, and an organ bay that opens into a vestry, which has been extended with church rooms in the late 20th century, although these are not of special interest. The exterior includes a stone pyramid roof with an octagonal drop finial and five lancet windows, while other windows feature hood-moulds and face terminals. The south front has one lancet window on the left and three on the right of a single-storey gabled porch, which has a pointed arch opening with a double chamfer. The squared and coursed stone walls include stone benches inset into the pointed arch doorway, which has a decorative hinge. The chancel has a two-light window on the south front and a three-light window on the east. The vestry features a two-light window and a chimney at the junction with the chancel. The west front of the vestry has a shouldered doorway approached by a flight of three steps, and there are five lancets on the north front.

Inside, the church is rendered, with a pointed, chamfered chancel arch supported by dwarf stone walls and an arcade with marble columns facing the nave. The chancel has a ceiled and boarded barrel vault, while the nave features an arch-braced king post roof supported by carved corbels. There is a west end gallery held up by two painted wooden columns with brackets that spring from an entablature, and a double flight of stairs is located at the centre of the west wall. The sanctuary has marble tesserie, and the chancel is adorned with Minton tiles. The reredos is made of carved wood, designed and executed by Henry Stuart King, the Vicar, in 1901. The church also has a painted wooden pulpit in Gothic style on a stone base with marble columns, approached by a flight of stone steps. An octagonal font made of Portland stone is present, along with an oil painting on canvas titled The Man of Sorrows. There is some stained glass, with the east end dated 1905 and the south chancel window from 1962. The ecclesiastical parish was established in 1866.