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    Inside of St John's Church circa 1992

    The interior of St John's Church circa 1992. Picture supplied by Diane Adams. We intend to restore the church with as little alteration as possible.


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    St John's Church, Kates Hill, burial place of William Perry 'The Tipton Slasher' Champion of England 1850-15






    NOW FOR SALE VOLUME ONE OF 'TALES FROM A CHURCHYARD', ST JOHN'S CHURCH, KATES HILL, DUDLEY

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    Written and sponsored by Chris Smith of Village Voice Community Magazines

    Available from:

    Our stall on Dudley Market every Saturday (£7.50)

    Our office and drop in centre, The Old School House, St John's Road, Kates Hill open Monday to Friday

    Tiwana Superstore, High View Street (by St John's Church, open 7 days 9am to 10pm) £7.50

    Dudley Archive Service, Coseley

    Mail Order: send chq to St John's Church Preservation Group for £8.99 address as above

    ALL PROCEEDS FROM BOOK SALES GO TO ST JOHN'S CHURCH PRESERVATION GROUP






    WELCOME TO THE WEBSITE OF ST JOHN'S CHURCH PRESERVATION GROUP.

    Formed in 2007 to save, re-open, restore and maintain St John' The Evangelist Church, Kates Hill, Dudley, West Midlands, UK


    

    THE STORY.......

    The church opened in 1840 but was closed in 2002 on safety grounds.

    It has since been shown to be fully repairable and is also now a Grade II listed building. It has an extensive graveyard approaching two and a half acres and contains the graves of many notable people including William Perry 'The Tipton Slasher' and Marion Richardson the famous art and handwriting teacher. 


    Following a feasibility study "The Future For St John's Church" we (St John's Church Preservation Group) have been invited to apply to lease the building.

    A Business Plan is now being prepared and fundraising has re-commenced in earnest.The plan will be submitted during February/March 2012




    St John's Church Preservation Group, The Old School House, St John's Road, Kates Hill, Dudley, West Midlands, DY2 7JT


    Remembrance Walk 6.11.2010Image

    St John's Church, Kates Hill, burial place of Julia Hanson and the Hanson family 'Hanson's Beer'


    TO RECEIVE COPIES OF OUR NEWSLETTERS AS A JPEG ATTACHMENT PLEASE EMAIL savestjohnschurch@hotmail.co.uk

    Keep right up to date

    Issue 1 2012 now available


    To join our group please email for a joining form. Membership is free.


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Up to date News about the work of the St John's Church Preservation Group, updated frequently


 NEWS

Month by month at a glance, brief details of events, committee and steering group meetings, grounds clearance and events of some of our sponsors and supporters


 CALENDAR

Details of some of our Sponsors and Supporters including links to their websites where available.



 SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS



 Why is St John's Church important? Why should we save it? How much will it cost? What we will do with it when it's re-opened?

Also included here our VISION STATEMENT written in May 2007 and with progress updated to a current date

Also on this page a link to the website where we keep all the details of the SURVEYS AND INSPECTIONS carried out on the St John's church building since 1992.


 WHY SAVE SJC?

Our patron is Professor Carl Chinn, historian, author and broadcaster. 

See pictures, read his support quotes and check out his personal relationship to William Perry The Tipton Slasher. Also other links to learn more about Professor Carl Chinn.


 PROFESSOR CARL CHINN MBE

 

We need a lot of help from a lot of people to achieve the restoration and re-opening of the St John's Church building. Find out how you could contribute.

 

 HELP NEEDED

Getting the younger generation involved is key to the sustainability of the St John's Church building. Young people from the age of 6 years are welcomed into membership. Also contains details of our Schools and Colleges links and resouces

Page not fully completed yet - we await being able to engage the services of dedicated youth work team once we have the building re-opened 


 YOUNG SUPPORTERS

Membership of St John's Church Preservation Group is free and open to all


 JOIN US NOW!

Full details of meetings and events, ticket and admission prices

 

MEETINGS AND EVENTS


A link to a secondary website where we keep all our supporter messages. Please send us a message to be added and give permission in your email.

savestjohnschurch@hotmail.co.uk


 YOUR MESSAGES

Details of our current appeals and how they are progressing 


 APPEALS

Check out the area of St John's parish (the largest parish in the Dudley Deanery). Also find out details of worship at St John's which continues in the Parish Hall.

 

 PARISH MAP

 We aim to set up a family history resource centre although this is not available yet.

We have a large number of interesting graves at St John's and some details are contained on this page

 

 GRAVEYARD INFORMATION

Various images please also see Facebook below for access to more photo albums 

 

 PHOTO GALLERY


How to contact us by post, email, telephone or in person

Also contains details of the St John's Church Preservation Group committee


 

 CONTACT US

 

Details of the media who have supported us including links to archive material

 

 MEDIA

 

Links to other organisations and individuals with whom we have contact

 

 LINKS


The St John's Church Steering Group headed by the Archdeacon of Dudley The Ven Fred Trethewey was set up in January 2008.

Details of membership, structure, terms of reference and actions and the work and discussions undertaken. 

 

 SJC STEERING GROUP

 

Details of St John's Church Preservation Group on social networking facility facebook including links to the facebook photo albums


 

FACEBOOK

St John's Church will be forever linked with Tipton through the famous 'Tipton Slasher' who is buried at St John's.

Details of the Tipton Slasher and our other Tipton connections including the fabulous Tipton Library which houses a permanent local history display featuring the Tipton Slasher.


 TIPTON
We are currently preparing the first guide book to prepare St John's Church to be part of the Dudley and Black Country Tourist Trail

Page not fully completed yet

 TOURISM


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