Description:St. John's Church is situated close to Barlaston Hall. The earliest part of the church is the tower, dating from the twelfth century; the remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1888. Set into the south wall is a sundial, inscribed 'J. Aston, Church Warden'. The building was closed in 1980 after subsidence caused cracks in the masonry.
Note the memorials to the Wedgwood family, including Arthur Felix Wedgwood who was killed in World War One, and Francis Hamilton Wedgwood (1867 - 1930) who headed the Wedgwood factory at Etruria throughout the depression years of the 1920s.
The Jasper memorial plaques are to Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood (right), the anthropologist, and Lord Wedgwood of Barlaston (left).
Photograph by courtesy of the Trustees of the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.