St John the Evangelist

The church is located on the north side of St Georges Square, is a striking looking building constructed in an Early English style. The unusually positioned tower is located on the south side of the building, set in the angle between the nave and gabled turret. The broached spire has unusual swept eaves and is constructed of solid stone masonry, contrasting with the low sweeping Westmoreland green slate roof over the main body of the church. The windows have narrow and pointed arched lancets. At the east end of the church is a semi octagonal apse with an unusual French style roof.

The interior of the church features a five-bay nave that has arch-braced trusses carried on hammer beams. The roof and the stained glass west window are fully visible from the middle of the church. Being a cruciform church, there are transepts to either side of the nave, the one to the south bearing the finest stained glass window in the church. By contrast, the windows in the north transept have clear glass. The wide stone chancel gives access to the semi octagonal apse that has single windows in each face with carved colonnettes and medieval style heads to the rich moulded surrounds. The pitch pine pews in the nave and transept and the carved oak choir stalls and altar frontal are later 19th century furnishings.

The church was reordered in 1988 with a parish room built into the back of the nave. Kitchen and toilet facilities were added. The church is set within a modest graveyard, in which there are a few standing monuments.

The graveyard is surrounding by a stone wall topped with triangular copings. The lychgate, which has a stone roof and sweptback walls, was built in 1923 as a First World War memorial. In the south-eastern corner of the graveyard stands a tall mature tree that adds much to the country feel of the square. To the north of the churchyard, the land drops away steeply down to Ellar Carr Mill and affords impressive views across the valley.