St John the Evangelist's Church (also known as The Willows) is in Ribby Road, Kirkham, Lancashire, England.

[2] Said to have cost £10,000 (equivalent to £1,250,000 in 2023),[3][4] the church was designed to hold 500–600 people and was heated by underfloor hot air provided by a furnace.

[4] The church was consecrated on 22 April 1845 by Rt Revd George Brown, the Roman Catholic bishop of Liverpool.

After a procession, the terce was sung by the priests and a choir from St. Augustine's, Preston then sang a High Mass with music from Mozart and Haydn.

[4] From 1895 the parish priest was Fr Francis John Gillow who made some alterations to the interior of the church.

At the same time Pugin's altar was moved to a side chapel and the rood screen was relocated to the west end of the church and altered to fit.

[1][4] [nb 1] In 1906 Gillow installed a new main altar, a pulpit, benches, and Stations of the Cross.

[9] Inside the church the five-bay arcade is carried on round piers with tall plinths.

[2] A few items of church furniture designed by Pugin are still in use, including a triple sedilia, credence table, prie-dieu and candlesticks.

[13] The church along with the churchyard walls and gateway were designated as Grade II listed buildings on 11 June 1986.

[14] The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, writing in 1969, says of the church and its architect: "It is a modest building and, like so much of Pugin's, really very impersonal".