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About Killyleagh St John Evangelist
Killyleagh St John Evangelist is a Church of Ireland church in Killyleagh, County Down. It is in the Diocese of Down & Dromore.
Notable features
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was baptised in the church in 1660. Tutored in the library at Killyleagh Castle, he became a physician, botanist, chemist and natural historian, was appointed royal physician to Queen Anne in 1712 and also served George I and George II, and held the presidency of both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Society. He bequeathed his collection to the nation, which helped establish the British Museum. He is credited with introducing chocolate to Britain, having found cocoa in Jamaica and developed a sweetened recipe for manufacturing it. The moth Urania Sloanus and the plant genus Sloanea are named after him. A font cover was gifted to the church in his memory by parishioners in 1964.
A window at the west end of the north nave, depicting the angel and the women at the tomb, dates from around 1895 and came from Heaton, Butler & Bayne of London. It was given in memory of Frederick Hamilton Temple Blackwood, 1st Marquis of Dufferin and Ava.
The parish has its own graveyard, with regulations and charges posted on the notice board in the church porch.
Clergy
- Priest-In-Charge Rev E Grobbelaar
