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800 years old, small and beautiful.

A priest and two churches are recorded in Domesday Book for Collingham, however, the present stone church was largely built in the 13th century .

A medieval church containing Norman fabric and which was a chapel of ease for the parish of Norwell existed on the site of the present building; it was demolished in 1849.

The church building, designed by John Mark Mansell Jenkinson, the second generation of a Sheffield firm of architects, was opened in 1971.

Whilst it is probable that a wooden Saxon church existed on the site of the present church, we can say for certain that in the 11th and 12th centuries there was a Norman church, built of clunch and rubble intermixed with Roman tiles.

We are in the middle of the Archangel Way pilgrimage route with a toilet for public use and an ancient Ring Cross.

Thought to be an early 19th century rebuilding of a medieval church although no perceptible early fabric remains.

St John's is a very fine example of Victorian architecture, originally opened in 1879 and, following a fire, reopened in 1897 with one of the tallest spires in northern England.