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A small Benedictine priory stood here in the year 900 AD and the chancel area of the present church is thought to be the site of its chapel.

A grant to help fund work including replacing the cramped tea-bar, library and toilet with a spacious kitchen and fully accessible toilet, and to improve energy efficiency and reduce running costs by installing draught-proofing and double/secondary glazing windows.

The architect Charles Hansom, designer of fifty Catholic churches in the country and brother of Joseph Aloysius Hansom, the designer of the Hansom cab, regarded St John’s as his best and most rewarding work.

Situated on the edge of an ancient village on the Caldicot Levels and dedicated to the self styled last King of Britain.

The church was built in 1841 by George Manners of Bath.

A church rising out of Bristol's north gate.

A church has stood on the present site since Norman times, this probably being the third, but in 1786 the medieval building, which had a history of instability, was judged beyond repair and pulled down.

It is clear from the first glimpse that this is a church out of the ordinary.