Church of St. John the Baptist — Church Avenue

Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1743, repaired 1833, and repaired and extended 1862-3. Comprising three-bay nave, with lower single-bay porch to west (entrance) elevation, single-bay single-storey vestry addition and steps to crypt to northeast. Pitched slate roofs having cast-iron rainwater goods, render copings and carved granite kneelers. Granite ashlar openwork bellcote to west gable with round-headed opening having granite keystone, bronze bell on iron wheel with chain and rope pull, and carved granite pediment. Pebbledashed walls, having cut granite quoins, cut granite plinth course to north elevation, and low stepped buttresses to porch and vestry. Round-headed window openings with Romanesque-style tracery mullions and paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows having leaded clear and coloured glass, with cut granite sills. Openings to nave have cut granite Gibbsian surrounds. Square and round-headed windows to porch with cut granite sills and leaded glass to fixed timber windows. Square-headed window opening to vestry with granite sill and three-over-six pane timber sliding sash window and wrought-iron bars. Round-headed doorway to porch with double-leaf timber battened door and wrought and cast-iron bootscrape. Square-headed doorways with timber battened doors, one with render surround, to vestry and east elevation. Interior has timber planked floor, smooth and ruled-and-lined plaster to walls, timber panelling to apse with pointed-arch detail, and smooth plaster and timber wainscoting to nave, timber altar rail, hexagonal timber pulpit, movable timber pews and marble baptismal font. Carved marble memorial to Coghill at north, First World War brass memorial to wall at north, carved marble wall-mounted memorials at south and east; plaque to architect at southeast. Organ gallery to west with closed balustrade having pointed-arch detail, bifold doors, fixed and movable pews and organ, and accessed by timber stairs. Set in graveyard with variety of upright gravestones, table tombs, crypts and recumbent stones. Attached grave to northeast corner with wrought and cast-iron railing. Chest tomb with carved ashlar detail in granite slab walls. Some uprights gravestones tidied into rows, with some moved to boundary. Boundary wall to southeast having blocked square-headed openings with carved limestone sills. Some architectural fragments built into kerbing to graveyard paths and boundary walls. Site enclosed by red brick, rendered and coursed rubble walls, terminating in banded granite ashlar square-plan gate piers with pointed caps. Wrought and cast-iron double and single-leaf gates.