The Church Yard Works & St. John's Church, Burslem
Location 18 on the index map
The illustration above shows the
house and works in front of St John's Church.
The church is shown with a thatch roof.
The Churchyard House on the south-east side of St John's churchyard was
originally the property of the Shaw family.
Thomas Wedgwood of the Overhouse acquired the site when he married Margaret,
the daughter and heiress of John Shaw. Shortly before his death in 1679 he
built the Churchyard Works as a replacement for a pottery he had been working
since at least 1657. Josiah Wedgwood, his great grandson was born in the House
in 1730.
The illustration above shows the house and works in front of St John's Church.
It was a drawing made from memory for Eliza Meteyard's Life of Josiah Wedgwood
(1866) (so it should be
treated with caution, the relationship between the lane, the house and the
church is not quite in line with the 1740 map)
St John's Church taken from the
approximate
location of the grounds of The Church Yard Works.
(1714-1837)
