St. Johns Old Church
High Worsall
St. Johns Church 1997
St. Johns Church 1910
THE MAP
ALL SAINTS to St JOHNS route - A to B by road, then accross the field by public footpath.
The surrounding field (No.4625) is designated as a Scheduled Monument (List entry No. 1019065) "Medieval Settlement and Associated Field Sytem and Post-Medieval Chaple, adjacent to Manor House Farm".
Rights of Way are reserved for public access to the remains of St Johns Church from the existing Public Footpath which crosses Field 4625 East to West close to the Southern boundary of the Churchyard.
The now ruined Church of St John at High Worsall was the predessor of All Saints Church and was probably built on the site of an earlier church reported to have been in existence as early as 1204. The Church of St John was built in 1719, as a Parish Church, of coursed stone and brick with, at least in later years, a tiled roof.
Because of its deteriorating condition, from February 1891 services were increasingly held in the School Room at Low Worsall and in 1892 the decision was taken to pull down the chancel of St. Johns Church and restore the nave to make it suitable as a chapel of rest, as seen in the 1910 photo above.
ST. JOHNS ADDITIONAL HISTORY
The above short summary of St John's history does not do justice to the church's interesting life story and the linked paper below goes some way to reveal much more about it.