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Church Row, LONDON, NW3 6UU

The present church was built in 1745 to replace a ruinous earlier one. The churchyard retains a truly rural feel with squirrels, songbirds and prowling cats to be seen and heard among the old yew trees. The box tomb in the far corner here belongs to the artist John Constable who was a local resident.

Looking south-west from Church Row. The church was consecrated in 1747 with a dedication to St. John. It was extended between 1877 and 1878. It is a Grade I listed building.

The parish church of St John-at-Hampstead dates from 1745 and was consecrated two years later. It was preceded on this site by a number of earlier churches, built from the late Saxon period onwards.

This was actually photographed on the day after Twelfth Night. For a photograph of the interior of the church see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7065249

This was actually photographed on the day after Twelfth Night. For a photograph of the interior of the church see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7065249

Although not a Hampstead resident, this is probably the most celebrated grave in the parish churchyard. The inscription in full is as follows. "In Memory Of MR. JOHN HARRISON, late of Red-Lion Square, London. Inventor of the TIME-KEEPER for ascertaining the LONGITUDE at Sea. He was born at Foulby, in the County of York, and was the Son of a Builder at that Place, who brought him up to the same Profession. Before he attained the Age of 21, He without any Instruction, employed himself in cleaning & repairing Clocks & Watches & made a few of the former, chiefly of Wood. At the Age of 25 He employed his Whole Time in Chronometrical Improvements. He was the Inventor of the Gridiron Pendulum and the Method of preventing the Effect of Heat and Cold upon Time keepers by Two Bars of different Metals fixed together. He introduced the Secondary Spring to keep them going while winding up; and was the Inventor of most (or all) of the Improvements in Clocks & Watches during his Time. In the Year 1735, his first Time keeper was sent to Lisbon, and in 1764 his then much Improved fourth Time keeper having been sent to Barbadoes, the Commissioners of Longitude certified that it had determined the Longitude within one Third of Half a Degree of a great Circle, having erred not more than 40 Seconds in Time. After near fifty years close Application to the above Pursuits, he departed this Life on the 24th Day of March 1776, Aged 83." His wife and son (who has an equally long inscription) share the grave.

On the corner of Frognal Way, enabling visibility up the road. (Plus a rare sighting of the photographer!)

Looking west. The church was consecrated in 1747 with a dedication to St. John. It was extended between 1877 and 1878. It is a Grade I listed building.