Church of St. John The Evangelist

This church was listed Grade II in 1986 with the following description:
'Parish church. 1862 by Salvin for the Duke of Northumberland. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins; slate roof with flat stone gable copings on kneelers. Aisled nave with south porch; short aisles to chancel. Moulded pointed arch to south door in gabled porch; shouldered priest's door to chancel. 2 tall west lancets divided by massive buttress continuing to corbelled, gabled bell-cote. Irregular-block jambs to lancets of aisles and clerestory, paired in south nave aisle; 3 stepped east lancets. Cross finials to steeply-pitched nave and chancel roofs, fleur-de-lis finial to porch. Interior: plaster; chamfered 4-bay nave arcades; rear arches to windows and doors; chamfered chancel arch with inner arch on shafted corbels; 2-bay arcades on low walls to chancel aisles. Corbelled shafts to arch-braced cellar-truss nave roof. Painted wooden First World War memorial panel in north aisle; glass in north aisle by Theophilus Storey of Newcastle in 1892; illuminated Our Father on wood panel in chancel; marble monument by G. Park, North Shields, to Arthur Tomlin Coates, vicar, died 1897.' LISTED GRADE 2