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The present St John’s Church dates back to 1908 and succeeded an earlier building known as the “Paper Church”, which was destroyed by fire. It was designed by FC Eden - although a well known architect (he specialised in restoring Churches to an ornate style), he only designed two churches - the other is St George the Martyr at Wash Common, Newbury. St John's is very much the exception in his designs, being to a very simple design.
Initially a daughter church in the parish of St Nicholas, St John’s became a parish ("Harpenden St John") in its own right in 1936.
From the earliest days, St John’s has always been rooted firmly in the sacramental tradition and was one of the first Churches in the Diocese to adopt the Parish Communion as its principal Sunday service.
St John's has a Church Hall. It is in regular use by Church Groups and external organisations; we are not currently taking further regular bookings because of high levels of use.
This web site was launched in the spring of 2003. It is dedicated in memory of Alastair Simpson, who died in early 2003.
The web site was largely created with these tools - Coffee Cup HTML Editor 9.5, Coffee Cup Stylesheet Maker, Sausage Software HotDog PageWiz, Serif Photoplus 8.0 and a Canon Ixus V camera.
The site is hosted by Commskit, part of the Beds and Herts Churches Media Trust.
Important: This section is only relevant to St John's people with a St John's email account.
Instructions for setting up Outlook Express (and other programs) to receive and send mail with a stjohnsharpenden.org.uk address can be found here:
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