St John's Church, Brearton

The building was commissioned by Thomas Duncombe in 1836, and designed by James Pigott Pritchett.

[1][2] The church is built of magnesian limestone with gritstone dressings, on a plinth, and has a chamfered eaves cornice ,and a purple slate roof with gable copings and shaped kneelers.

The doorway at the west end has an ogee head and a hood mould, above which is a pilaster rising to a gabled bellcote with a crocketed finial.

Inside, the north-east corner is partitioned off as a vestry.

There is a reading desk, a pulpit and an octagonal font.

The church, in 2010
View from the nave into the chancel