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HANLEY ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCH, lies near Stoke on Trent, in Staffordshire. It was built in 1737 and boasts a 100 foot three-section tower and was later enlarged. The church was then rebuilt in 1788 at a cost of £6,000 and consecrated in 1790. It was described in one journal as part of "ecclesiastical architecture at its lowest ebb" and "Hanley parish church shared in the general depression of taste." It was constructed in plain brick edifice in a "debased" Gothic style. It had a nave, a chancel, quasi-aisles and a western tower of three stages, with embattled parapet of pinnacles, containing a clock and eight bells. . The polygonal chancel was added in 1872. The church was again restored and reseated in 1885, at an expenditure of £1,200 containing seating for 1,250 people (only 500 of them were free). The stone pinnacles on the corners of the tower were removed in the 1900's. A bid to close it in the 1970's failed and the church interior received a facelift instead. The tower was declared unsafe due to subsidence in 1985 and the church was subsequently closed. Bodies were exhumed from the graveyard to allow the construction of a ring road. It is called progress! |
| Name | Date | Location | BMD | Minister | Notes | FT |
| Hannah Burgam | 21 Feb 1830 | Hanley St John | Burial | NBI; age 1y. |