The Embrey picture gives a good clear view of the South West of the church. The pinnacles can be clearly seen and the building is clothed in ivy. The lower right area of the photo shows a freshly dug grave and an obvious area of untouched ground. Note the glass? domes around the graveyard. The stonework on the South transept looks reasonably fresh so it could date back to the late 1800s when the extensions were completed. In the background can be seen the old school rooms.
Blomefield postcard: This is the back of Nightingale 965. It may have been written by a child of the Vicar to a Grandmother or Aunty, perhaps. Note the insert of the Rev’d. Henry Arthur Gilbert Blomefield, vicar 1907-1912. So this dates the Nightingale picture of the interior of St.John’s. Note the gas lamps on the walls. Also there is no screen or evidence of a Lady Chapel in the North transept. The detail in the East wall,suggests that the whole wall was heavily decorated. The lower panels were still there in the middle of the last century and are still remembered by some.
This colour photo is the earliest known of St.John’s and predates the extensive church alterations in the late 1800’s. The chancel is much shorter and has an East window, lower in position and of a different design.
There is no space for the present organ and there is a Vicar’s vestry where the present Lady Chapel is positioned. The roof over the nave was lower as well.
