St. John's 1

After some years visiting the town, we finally made it into St. John's at Tunbridge Wells the other day.

Looks like a Victorian new build, no sign of graves in the churchyard, never mind about old ones. Certainly not the now all important Dr. Bayes, resident in Tunbridge Wells in life but in Bunhill Fields in death. See reference 2 and nearby posts.

They have done quite a good job with bolting community space onto the side of it - almost as good as our own St. Barnabas here in Epsom.

Big, handsome space inside, with nicely arranged chairs instead of lines of pews. All very modern with lots of audio visual and what looked like a substantial band. Perhaps into what some people call happy-clappy. Pity about the screen hanging down in front of the east window but I suppose one has to move with the times. Stained glass, such as it was, rather ordinary.

It looked like a church with some life about it, so they must still fear the Lord in Tunbridge Wells.

Reference 1: http://www.stjohnstw.org/.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/bayes-2.html.

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