This is a small pseudo-cruciform building (seen above from the southeast), sitting in a prominent position on the edge of a hill like so many churches by the architects, Mallinson and Healey.  Erected in 1857, it has now been stripped bare inside of whatever interest it may once have possessed and today it is only its architectural style and building plan that have anything worthwhile to say about its origins. The church consists of an aisleless nave with shallow transepts and a N. porch, and a chancel with a little tower adjoining to the southwest, followed to the east by a lean-to vestry.  The tower turns octagonal just below the bell-stage and the surmounting spire rises directly from the walls below in a similar manner to the spire at All Saints’, Salterhebble, constructed the same year.  The  larger All Saints’ also shares the same building style as St. John’s, namely the late geometrical of c. 1310, in which tracery shapes are largely confined to trefoils, trilobes and quatrefoils, with just slight suggestions of the ogee arch beginning surreptitiously to creep in.  The chancel E. window is four-light and the transept windows, three-light, with cinquefoil-cusped arches in which the middle cusp is pointed.  The one-light bell-openings rise through the bell-stage to gables in the cardinal faces of the spire.

Inside the church, the chunky transept and chancel arches bear two flat chamfers which die into the jambs.  The sanctuary E. wall is now completely plain, and the font, which may or may not be original, now occupies a position on the N. side of the chancel.  The chancel roof is framed in seven cants and the nave roof has purlins at the ⅓ and ⅔ stages and scissor-bracing above the collars.  The photograph below shows a lithograph of what the church was expected to look like, before construction had actually begun.  The likely date is 1856.