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|name         = St John the Divine, Horninglow
|image        = St John's Church and graveyard - geograph.org.uk - 247991.jpg
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|dedication   = [[John the Evangelist|St John]]
|denomination = [[Church of England]]
|churchmanship    = [[Anglo Catholic]]
|diocese      = [[Diocese of Lichfield]]
|province     = [[Province of Canterbury]]
|vicar        = [[Prebendary]] Michael Freeman
|curate       = Rev'd Duncan Gorwood
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|website      = http://www.stjohnshorninglow.org.uk/
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'''St John the Divine''' is the [[Church of England parish church]] in the suburb of [[Horninglow]], north west of [[Burton upon Trent]], Staffordshire. It is part of the [[Diocese of Lichfield]].
The church was built in 1866, designed by [[Edward Holmes (architect)|Edward Holmes]] in a Geometrical style. It consists of a chancel with north vestry, a nave of five bays, north and south aisles, and an engaged southwest tower with spire. It is built of brick faced externally with cream Coxbench stone and rendered internally with plaster and dressings of Bath stone. The nave arcades have octagonal piers with heavy, [[crocket]]ed capitals and arches of blue York and red Alton stone in bands, and the high and wide chancel arch rests on corbels with short, detached stone shafts. The [[stained-glass]] east window, depicting the life of [[St John the Evangelist]], is by [[William Warrington]] of London. The vestry was extended in 1911. The east end of the south aisle was fitted out as a Lady chapel in 1928 with a memorial window for Sarah Auden depicting St Chad and St Hilda with Celtic motifs. The font is at the west end. A peal of four steel bells was increased to six in 1875-6,<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=12359 British History Online ''Horninglow: Established church.'' A History of the County of Staffordshire: Volume IX, Nigel J. Tringham (Editor) (2003)]</ref> but the current six bells are from Holy Trinity Church, [[Batley Carr]] in West Yorkshire and were installed in 1996.<ref>{{cite web |title=Church history |url=http://www.stjohnshorninglow.org.uk/history.html |website=Parish Church of St John the Divine}}</ref> The rood screen was erected in memory of the 130 men of Horninglow killed in the First World War.
The churchyard contains the [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|CWGC]] war graves of eleven service personnel of the First World War and six of the Second World War.<ref name=cwgc>{{CWGC cemetery|id=43906|name=Horninglow (St.John) Churchyard|accessdate=25 August 2020}}</ref>
The first vicar of the church was John Auden, who died 23 November 1876. He was the father of [[George Augustus Auden]] and grandfather of [[W. H. Auden]].
==References==
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==External links==
{{Commonscat|St John the Divine's Church, Burton-upon-Trent}}
* [http://www.stjohnshorninglow.org.uk/#top St John the Divine], Horninglow
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[[Category:Borough of East Staffordshire]]
[[Category:Church of England church buildings in the Borough of East Staffordshire|Horninglow]]
[[Category:Churches completed in 1866]]
[[Category:19th-century Church of England church buildings]]
[[Category:1866 establishments in England]]