Information and pictures for St. John’s Church, Warminster.
From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 20th June 1868:
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St. John’s Church. The Vicar authorised the completion of the central compartment of the Reredos lately erected at the Church. The subject is the Crucifixion, but the original design has been altered by the introduction of a group of figures. It is a worthy monument to the liberality of the donor, George Temple Esq., of Bishopstrow House.
From The Warminster Parish Magazine And Church Register, March 1868:
On the 5th [February 1868] there was a Special Service at St. John’s Church, at 3 p.m., on the occasion of the opening of the new Organ. There was a large congregation, and among them representatives of most of the principal church families of the neighbourhood. An admirable sermon was preached by a former curate of the parish, the Rev. E. Slater Browne, Incumbent of St. Katharine’s, Savernake. The Rev. J. Pilditch, Curate of Westbury, who also worked among us one winter, and the four clergy of the parish, took some part in the service. The collection amounted to £11 17s. 3d. The Organ, which is by Mr. Voules, of Bristol, is much approved of by musical judges for its rich full tone and sweetness. It was played on this occasion by Mr. Richardson, Organist of Salisbury Cathedral, and the St. John’s Choir did their part excellently. The two youngest members of our choir have lately distinguished themselves by obtaining choristerships after a competitive examination: Maitland Dicker obtaining a choristership at All Saints, Margaret Street, London, and Ernest Ford one at the Cathedral, Salisbury.
From The Warminster Parish Magazine And Church Register, No.10, Vol.4., October 1867:
It has long been the desire of some that a small Sunday School should be opened at the east end of our town. A suitable cottage for a commencement of such a school has been found near St. John’s Church. The rent is £5; the fittings – benches, books, table, &c., and fuel, will be some £10 more. £6 have been already contributed in small sums. Money for this purpose may be sent either to the Vicar or to Mr. D’Arcy Preston.
From The Warminster Parish Magazine And Church Register, April 1867:
The oldest of our inhabitants cannot, we suppose, remember so severe weather in the month of March as that which we have lately been experiencing. The heavy fall of snow has not a little thinned our Lenten congregations. On Wednesday, the twentieth, the usual morning service at St. John’s had to be given up on account of the snow.
