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ST.
JOHN THE EVANGELIST
This Church stood outside the walls on the corner of
John Street and John’s Gate Street in the present
Cemetery, but its ruins have long since disappeared.
Originally it was the Church and Hospital of St. John
founded in the early part of the Thirteenth Century by
William Marshall, the builder of Tintern Abbey, and was
given to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem by the
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St. John's was
the only church in Wexford with a steeple. After the Suppression
it was demolished and its stones and materials converted to
profane use.
A presentment of a Jury of Wexford town and Corporation made in
October, 1537, found that " On ye 2oth day of March 1532, ye
Suffreign and Comyns of ye Town of Wexford kept fyre to the
doore of ye steeple of St. John’s for to let out a thyef that
made escape of ye towne gaole."
In St. John’s Cemetery are the graves of the Redmond and Talbot
families. The pattern of St. John’s is on the eve of the Feast
in the month of June, when the Cemetery is open to the public.
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Notice the
stone coffin standing near the back left.
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Fine
tombstones stand beside simple marker stones |
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The family
crypt of John Redmond,
Leader of
the Irish Parliamentary Party
(below
centre).
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