Church of Saint John

The Church of St John is a Perpendicular style church likely dating to the 18th century, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of local limestone with red sandstone dressings from Runcorn, and has a green slate roof. The church comprises a west tower, a nave with two aisles and a clerestory, and a chancel with an organ chamber and a vestry that functions as a north transept. The tower features angle buttresses, 2-light windows in the lower stage, and paired bell chamber lights above. A semi-octagonal stair turret is located at the southwest angle, and the tower is topped with an embattled parapet. The south aisle has 2- and 4-light windows, and a gabled porch with a deeply moulded arch faces west. The clerestory windows are grouped as 2 and 3 untraceried lights, each with a shallow arched head cut from a continuous wall plate or lintel. The north aisle has a 4-bay design, with a lean-to porch to the west and short, richly traceried windows with hood moulds. A narrower eastern bay has a higher gabled roof, a 2-light window, and paired windows in the upper storey. Shallow pilaster buttresses mark the outer angles of the aisles. The vestry range features paired 2-light, flat-headed windows on the ground floor, and three arched windows above. The chancel has a 5-light east window, a 2-light north window, and the south windows are of varied form, linked by a continuous, stepped hood mould, with clasping buttresses on either side of the gable.

Inside, the plain chamfered west tower arch leads to a 5-bay arcade with octagonal piers. The main arch mouldings and hood moulds spring from moulded caps. Stone wall posts rise from the hood moulds, supporting a complex hammer beam roof in two tiers. The lean-to aisles also have heavy timber roofs. The chancel arch has a hood mould, and a low stone wall carries a wrought iron rail, with a pulpit of linenfold and traceried wood panels on a stone base, positioned to the north. The organ and vestry are located to the north of the chancel. The chancel boasts a wagon roof with curved principal trusses carried on moulded brackets. Choir stalls, likely original to the design, have poppy heads and traceried panels to the bench ends. The reredos, completed in 1931, is a triptych with low relief panels surmounted by flowing, traceried canopy work and a frieze; the remainder of the east wall is panelled with blind Perpendicular tracery. The altar rails, also from 1931, are of wrought iron with gilded wheat stalks on the uprights.

The church contains stained glass, including a depiction of the Transfiguration in the chancel east window, saints figures to the north and south, and a New Testament miracle to the south; none are signed or dated. A south aisle east window from 1914 is by Kempe and Tower, and a pair of windows in the south wall (one dated 1903) were possibly by Ward and Hughes. A west window from 1907 likely originates from the same studio as the aisle windows.