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Church of St John the Evangelist

Opened in 1840

The Anglican Church of St John the Evangelist was built in Carlton Hill, for Reverend Henry Wagner by George Cheesman in Doric style. Seating up to 1200 people, the church closed in 1980.

After plans to convert it into a detoxification centre were rejected at a public inquiry, this listed building was taken over by the Greek Orthodox community as a church in March 1986.

St John the Evangelist

This page was added on 16/11/2006.

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St John's Carlton Hill was the 'twin church' for Brighton College Chapel. After the Harvest Festival service each year, boys used to be sent out to houses in the parish with boxes of food for pensioners.

By Martin Nimmo (24/01/2007)

My cousin, Albert Newington, was a choirboy at this church, what a lot of leg pulling he got for it. But he did have a nice voice. We both went to St Johns School down the road, at least we did in between bunking off for the day. After that we went up to Queens Park School where we did the same until we got caught by Mr Metcalfe one of the teachers, the devil himself. Ahh ... what memories.

By George / Duffy Watkins (12/11/2009)

I was married in this church on December 3rd 1960, to David Henry Blackman, I was eighteen years old,so this year we will be celebrating our 50th Anniversary.

By Joyce Blackman formely Bryant (05/01/2010)

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