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Brief history
Haydon Wick is one of the two original villages that made up the parish
of Rodbourne Cheney, and although now linked together by housing, it has
still retained some of the features that it had as a village.
The origins of St John's at Haydon Wick, Swindon, go back some 30 years when the Parish Church of St Mary's set it up to minister to the people in that area of the parish.
The first building was a prefabricated wooden building located in the centre of the now expanding village, and served the steadily growing congregation very well for a number of years.
At the same time as St John's congregation was increasing, so were the number of houses in the area, until the point had been reached that it was decided to rebuild and relocate the church more into the centre of the area that it was serving.
The new St John's is a modern style of church building and is designed for both worship and community use, having a number of rooms of various sizes all under one roof.
The worship area, following a reorganisation due to
the increase in numbers can now seat 140, which can be increased to 200
by opening up folding doors into the original church room.
St John's endeavours to cater for all age ranges with two services on Sunday, an active Sunday School and youth groups and still manages to play its part in the wider community by the use of its rooms to such groups as play schools and Brownies during the week.
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Page last updated: 12 February 2007