St John’s Church in Stone sold for £157,000

The empty St John’s Church building in Stone sold at auction last night for £157,000.

The building had been on the market since December 2012 at £195,000 with Louis Taylor but – after failing to sell – went to a public auction at the Quality Hotel in Hanley, with a guide price of between £80,000 and £100,000.

A Louis Taylor spokesman said this morning that they could not reveal who had bought it.

The St John’s congregation voted in May 2012 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.

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The congregation held their final service in the building in August last year before moving out. Services have since been held at Walton Priory Middle School.

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.