St John Baptist, King Street. The first building, in 1761, was paid for by John Bourne, the present one dates from 1792-5. Brick, with an embraced W tower. W doorway with Tuscan demi-columns. A circular window over. Doorway and window are under one giant blank arch. The nave is five bays long; pointed windows in two tiers, galleries inside. Transepts and chancel 1827-8.
Behind the church the Church School of 1822. Symmetrical, of one story, with two steeply pointed, tall doorways, side by side and under one gable in the middle.

St. John the Baptist Church -  February 1975
The church was demolished in 1979 because of mining subsidence.
Source: "Kevin Long"
 

on St John the Baptist

Town Hall, Times Square. Times Square was first laid out in 1789. The first town hall was built here in 1844. The present building is of 1863 by Burrill. Ashlar, of thirteen bays, classical in style. The centre has a three-bay porte-cochere and giant upper Ionic columns carrying a pediment. Pediments also over the angle bays. The less stressed parts have only blank windows on the min floor. The S extension is of 1912-13 by J. H. Beckett. The Market Hall is behind.

Longton Town Hall
-photo 2006 c. fotodiscs4u -

In 1985  the local council wanted to demolish this building.
however after much public outcry it has
survived and now carries a grade 2 listing

Immediately S of the market hall is the Bennett Precinct, a new shopping structure, by Ian Fraser & Associates, opened in 1965, and architecturally the best of the Five Towns.

Bennett Precinct, Longton