Part 1St John the Baptist
At one time the cathedral for Chester, St John's has come down in the world and yet remains a fascinating old building. Mentioned as a monastery in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, home for a time to Mrs de Quincy, ruined at both ends of the building, it nonetheless contains a wealth of interest for the visitor.
However St John's is still a living church and the clergy are extremely friendly and welcoming. I do hope that this film will awaken your interest and that you will pop in and visit the church and add your prayers to those that have been offered there for 1,300 years.
The "More info" option offers you the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, fairly dull reading for the most part but every couple of pages you come across a nugget that makes the rest of the work well worth while. For example, one of my favourites is from the year 891 and tells of three mad Irishmen who set out in a boat of two and a half skins, without any oars and only a week's food. With the proverbial luck of the Irish, they landed in Cornwall instead of being swept out into the Atlantic as they deserved.