Below is the history of the Church and some photographs we took earlier this year.
St John The Evangelist, Dudley (2009). The ecclesiastical parish of St. John, Kates Hill, was formed Oct.15,1844: the Church, erected in 1840 at a cost of £3000, and renovated in 1873 at a cost of £2255, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, west porch, and an embattled western tower containing ten tubular bells: in the chancel is a memorial window to the late John Beddard Esq. of Dixon’s Green, and there are others to the late Rev. William Henry Vincent Crump, curate here 1878-82, and to the wife of the late Mr. Edw. Truelove Terry, to whose memory the stone pulpit, erected by her husband, is also dedicated: the screen is a memorial to the late Mr. E.T. Terry, and the handsome marble font to the Rev. E.H.L. Noot (vicar 1843-1905), to whose memory also the brass litany desk is dedicated: there are several memorial windows: the interior is surrounded by galleries on three sides, and affords 730 sittings, 370 being free. The register dates from the year 1840. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £470,with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Dudley, and held since 1906 by the Rev. Charles Thomas Powell M.A. of St John’s College, Cambridge. A lychgate was erected at the entrance to the churchyard in 1920 as a memorial to those from the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918. Miss Fellows’s bequest of £200 to St John’s parish is invested and administered in the same manor as in St Edmund’s parish, and this parish shares also in the amalgamated bread and clothing charities. Source: Kelly’s Directory (Worcestershire) 1921.
The lychgate as referred to in the above text.
This photograph shows the commanding views from the Church.
St John The Evangelist, Dudley (2009). The ecclesiastical parish of St. John, Kates Hill, was formed Oct.15,1844: the Church, erected in 1840 at a cost of £3000, and renovated in 1873 at a cost of £2255, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, west porch, and an embattled western tower containing ten tubular bells: in the chancel is a memorial window to the late John Beddard Esq. of Dixon’s Green, and there are others to the late Rev. William Henry Vincent Crump, curate here 1878-82, and to the wife of the late Mr. Edw. Truelove Terry, to whose memory the stone pulpit, erected by her husband, is also dedicated: the screen is a memorial to the late Mr. E.T. Terry, and the handsome marble font to the Rev. E.H.L. Noot (vicar 1843-1905), to whose memory also the brass litany desk is dedicated: there are several memorial windows: the interior is surrounded by galleries on three sides, and affords 730 sittings, 370 being free. The register dates from the year 1840. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £470,with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Dudley, and held since 1906 by the Rev. Charles Thomas Powell M.A. of St John’s College, Cambridge. A lychgate was erected at the entrance to the churchyard in 1920 as a memorial to those from the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918. Miss Fellows’s bequest of £200 to St John’s parish is invested and administered in the same manor as in St Edmund’s parish, and this parish shares also in the amalgamated bread and clothing charities. Source: Kelly’s Directory (Worcestershire) 1921.
The lychgate as referred to in the above text.
This photograph shows the commanding views from the Church.