The church of St John has a number of interesting features. The first is that the current tower, with its Early English style lower lancet windows, appears to be earlier than the church from which it may originally have stood separate. The church is in the Decorated style, with later Perpendicular style windows including the west font, north and south aisles. The church was restored in 1843, when it finally became a parish church in its own right, and no longer a chapel of ease to St Clement.Also of intrigue is the building that now links the tower to the church. The ground floor is a stone-faced brick chamber with a brick barrel vault, and above this a small room above this which may have been the priest's room. From this room a stair rises to the nave roof and the roof of the priest's roof, on which there are two passages, one on top of each other. One leads to the ringing chamber, the other to a winder stair up the tower.
To find the final co-ordinates the follow questions need to be answered:
1. JEMIMA DIGGINS DIED CH62
2. ALBERT EDWARD KIRBY DIED F9 OCT 195J AGE 7D
3. GRACE ELLEN KIRBY DIED 20 DEC 1966 AGE 7A
4. BERTIE JAMES NELSON DIED B0 AUG 1968 AGE G5
5. RICHARD MUNSON DIED E1 DEC 1889 AGE 8I
Final Co-ordinates:
N52 AB.CDE E000 FG.(H-1)(I+1)J
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