St John the Divine's Church, Pemberton

The church was built between 1830 and 1832 to a design by Thomas Rickman and Henry Hutchinson. A grant of £4,913 () was given towards its construction by the Church Building Commission. Between 2008 and 2011 the church was modernised with the creation of a kitchen, toilets and a meeting area at the west end.

St John's is constructed in brick with sandstone dressings, and has slate roofs. Its architectural style is Gothic Revival. The plan consists of a nine-bay nave, north and south aisles, north and south porches, and a short single-bay chancel. At the west end are corner pilasters, each containing a blind lancet window, rising to a turret containing a louvred lancet, and with an embattled parapet. In the centre of the west front is a gabled doorway flanked by buttresses, the gable of the doorway containing a shield. Above it is a triple stepped lancet window, and over this is a blind lancet. Each bay along the sides of the aisles contains a lancet window. The east window consists of a stepped…