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Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking SE from Lower Heath across to Buglawton and beyond.
©Adrian Bailey
Dist:0.5km<br/>Located in the churchyard, this memorial records the men of Buglawton who gave their lives fighting in World War I and World War II.
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>Situated on the west side of the church, the churchyard is very tidy and well looked after.
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>The gates give access to the church from Old Buxton Road, they are flanked by two lovely traditional Yew trees.
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>The bright blue door is complemented by the pots of summer bedding plants to provide a welcome to the church, it is also visible in [[2577244]].
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>A closer view of the clock that is visible in [[2577244]]; it is one of three clocks, all of which have stopped at different times. See also [[2577301]].
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>Showing the main entrance below the tower and steeple, the church is laid out on a north-north-east/south-south-west configuration. One of three clock faces, all of which are stopped at different times, is also visible. See also [[2577260]], [[2577301]] and [[2577266]]. St John’s, or St John the Evangelist’s, Church was the first of several new churches to be built in the borough of Congleton, originally as a ‘district church’ within the Parish of Astbury. The church was built on land gifted by a Mr Thomas Chapman of the Lowe after being petitioned by the first Vicar of Buglawton, the Reverend Edward Wilson. It was built in the pseudo-Norman style and cost £2,286; the money was raised by voluntary public subscription and a grant from the Diocesan Church Building Society. St John’s was consecrated on the 13th October 1840, the procession consisting of the Bishop and the Town Corporation was preceded by a group of Chartists and Socialists carrying a black flag and the Death’s Head and crossed bones! Historical information from The History of Congleton by W. B. Stephens, Congleton History Society: page 219 ( http://tinyurl.com/43cevt6 ).
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>One of three clocks on the tower, all of which seemed to have stopped at different times. See also [[2577260]] and [[2577301]].
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>The weather vane is on the steeple on St John's Church. For centuries weathervanes, or weathercocks, have kept people in touch with the elements, signalling those shifts in the wind, which bring changes in the weather. Nowadays they are typically used as an architectural ornament at the highest point of a building. Although the cockerel is the traditional design, ships, arrows, pheasants, people and horses to name but a few are also common. Weathervanes are designed in such a way that the weight is evenly distributed on each side of the surface, but the surface area is unequally divided, so that the pointer can move freely on its axis. The side with the larger surface area is blown away from the wind direction, so that the smaller side, with the pointer, turns to face the wind direction. Most vanes have pointers below that are aligned with the compass points, north, east, south and west. Because of a papal edict in the 9th century there were a great number of weathercocks to be found on churches, the edict ordered that every Church in Christendom had to be mounted with a cockerel to symbolise Peter’s betrayal of Christ (Luke 22:34- "I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me"). Although the edict only required the cockerel to be a symbol it soon became a weathervane and by the 13th century both terms, weathercock and weathervane, were being used interchangeably. Because Christian churches are always laid out east to west early weathercocks did not need to have compass directions attached to them, although it could be a bit tricky with this church being laid NNE to SSW.
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking at the west elevation of the church from [[2577992]]. St John’s, or St John the Evangelist’s, Church was the first of several new churches to be built in the borough of Congleton, originally as a ‘district church’ within the Parish of Astbury. The church was built on land gifted by a Mr Thomas Chapman of the Lowe after being petitioned by the first Vicar of Buglawton, the Reverend Edward Wilson. It was built in the pseudo-Norman style and cost £2,286; the money was raised by voluntary public subscription and a grant from the Diocesan Church Building Society. St John’s was consecrated on the 13th October 1840, the procession consisting of the Bishop and the Town Corporation was preceded by a group of Chartists and Socialists carrying a black flag and the Death’s Head and crossed bones! Historical information from The History of Congleton by W. B. Stephens, Congleton History Society: page 219 ( http://tinyurl.com/43cevt6 ).
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>This door at the base of the tower, according to The History of Congleton by W. B. Stephens, leads to the choir and organ gallery. St John’s, or St John the Evangelist’s, Church was the first of several new churches to be built in the borough of Congleton, originally as a ‘district church’ within the Parish of Astbury. The church was built on land gifted by a Mr Thomas Chapman of the Lowe after being petitioned by the first Vicar of Buglawton, the Reverend Edward Wilson. It was built in the pseudo-Norman style and cost £2,286; the money was raised by voluntary public subscription and a grant from the Diocesan Church Building Society. St John’s was consecrated on the 13th October 1840, the procession consisting of the Bishop and the Town Corporation was preceded by a group of Chartists and Socialists carrying a black flag and the Death’s Head and crossed bones! Historical information from The History of Congleton by W. B. Stephens, Congleton History Society: page 219 ( http://tinyurl.com/43cevt6 ).
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>Two of three clocks on the tower, all of which have stopped at different times. See also [[2577260]].
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>Taken from the south-east corner of the churchyard, for a comparison see Francis Frith's picture taken in 1898: http://www.francisfrith.com/congleton/photos/st-johns-church-buglawton-1898_42170/ . The trees have grown and the ivy has been removed from the walls, but very little has changed. St John’s, or St John the Evangelist’s, Church was the first of several new churches to be built in the borough of Congleton, originally as a ‘district church’ within the Parish of Astbury. The church was built on land gifted by a Mr Thomas Chapman of the Lowe after being petitioned by the first Vicar of Buglawton, the Reverend Edward Wilson. It was built in the pseudo-Norman style and cost £2,286; the money was raised by voluntary public subscription and a grant from the Diocesan Church Building Society. St John’s was consecrated on the 13th October 1840, the procession consisting of the Bishop and the Town Corporation was preceded by a group of Chartists and Socialists carrying a black flag and the Death’s Head and crossed bones! Historical information from The History of Congleton by W. B. Stephens, Congleton History Society: page 219 ( http://tinyurl.com/43cevt6 ).
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>Also known as Orange Hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum), it is a naturalised garden escape that originates from continental Europe. The bright orange flowers make a lovely splash of colour, as this one was, near the entrance to [[2577317]].
©Jonathan Kington
Dist:0.5km<br/>This very square bridge carries Bromley Road over the Biddulph Valley Way, it is also the exit point for the National Cycle Network route 55.
©Jonathan Kington

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