St John’s Church Tour, Boxmoor
St John’s Church, Station Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP1 1JY
St. John's Church in Boxmoor has a history that spans from a small chapel to a larger parish church. Initially, a chapel of ease was built in 1830 to serve the growing population, and it was later replaced by the existing church. Built in 1873/4 and extended in 1893, St John’s Church is one of only twelve Grade II listed churches in Hertfordshire. It was designed by Richard Norman Shaw, the architect of numerous notable buildings built during the Victorian period; New Scotland Yard and Norman Shaw buildings on the Embankment, Cragside in Northumberland, amongst many others.
St John’s has a wonderful collection of nine stained or painted glass windows dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and one window of ‘dalle-de-verre’, a glass art technique developed by Jean Gaudin in Paris in the 1930s. A painting of The Last Supper behind the altar is from 1908.
Timings & Tours
- Friday 12 September:
- 1000
Location & directions
St John’s Church, Station Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP1 1JY
- Directions:
- Meet outside the main entrance, St John’s Church, Station Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1JY. There is free car parking (3 hours) immediately outside the church in Heath Lane, HP1 1JY.
- Contact on day:
- Alan Olive
- Telephone number:
- +447879435485
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking required
- Booking conditions:
- Please pre-book via eventbrite. Please let us know if you book a place and subsequently find you cannot attend. This will enable us to reallocate your place. Thank you.
- Booking contact name:
- Alan Olive
- Booking email:
- [email protected]
- Booking website:
- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heritage-open-days-st-johns-church-tour-boxmoor-tickets-1487992689189?aff=oddtdtcreator
- Booking opens:
- 18 Jul 2025 12:00 AM
- Booking closes:
- 11 Sep 2025 12:00 AM
Accessibility details
Please meet at the main entrance to the church where you'll be met. The tour is mostly indoors.
Additional information
Enjoy the tour!
- Max no of people per tour:
- 20
- Est. tour duration:
- 1 hour(s)
