3-004-028 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

St. John's Church, Kingstone, Staffordshire, 1861. '...the former parish church...had become dilapidated and insecure, and, consequently, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot (in whose gift is the living) was induced to build a new church on an adjoining site, from designs supplied by Mr. D. Brandon, of London. The style of architecture selected for this building is of the Early English period. In plan it has a nave, polygonal chancel, south aisle, and vestry, under which is a crypt for warming the church; and at the east end of the aisle is a tower to contain five bells and a spire. The church is designed to contain three hundred sittings. The wails are constructed of stone from the Hollington quarries...The floor is paved with Minton's tiles, of varied designs and colour...The work was begun about twelve months back, and has been very creditably executed by Mr. Evans, of Ellastone, in Derbyshire. The church has been built at the expense of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, aided by grants from the Lichfield Diocesan Society and the Incorporated Society for Building Churches, and some private subscriptions. The picturesque design of the edifice, which is placed on the slope of a hill, groups well with the surrounding trees and scenery'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.