The former St John’s Church building in Stone will be up for sale at a public auction in November.
The Grade II listed building has been empty for over 12 months now since the congregation moved out in August last year when the repair bill for the building became too much to manage.
The St John’s congregation voted in May last year to move out of the building. They had been fundraising for years to raise £750,000 to repair its community building, an effort that was suspended because of the scale of the problems with the church itself, meaning the total amount needed to stay at the building had risen to a huge £1.75 million.
The congregation held their final service in the building in August last year before moving out. Services have been held at Walton Priory Middle School since then.
The church building had been on the market since December 2012 at £195,000 but is now up for sale at a public auction on 12th November, with a guide price of between £80,000 and £100,000. More details on the public auction HERE.
We took lots of photos inside the building just a couple of days before it was locked up. Click HERE to see them.
Stone Historical Society chairman Philip Leason wrote a great History Monthly post on the church. Click HERE to read it.
