St John's Church, Sharow

St John's Church is the parish church of Sharow, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

The church was built in 1825, to a design by George Knowles. A chancel was added to the church between 1873 and 1874, with side chapels and a vestry following soon after. The east window of the original structure was moved to the new chancel. The building was grade II listed in 1966.[1][2]

The church is built of stone with a slate roof, and consists of a nave, a south porch, a chancel with a south chapel and a north organ and vestry, and a west tower. The tower has four stages, corner buttresses, a trefoil-headed window in the third stage and three-light trefoil headed bell openings, all with hood moulds, and an embattled parapet. The nave also has an embattled parapet. Inside, the nave has a timber roof embossed with gold, while the chancel has a tiled floor, and the original choir stalls. The east window contains glass painted by George Hedgeland. The nave has a marble memorial to Knowles, with a carving of a broken bridge and a weeping willow tree.[2][3]

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  1. ^ "St John the Divine". National Churches Trust. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  2. ^ a b Historic England. "Church of St John the Evangelist, Sharow (1149834)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  3. ^ Leach, Peter; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009). Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5.
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