The United Benefice

St. John's is part of a wider group of churches known as the United Benefice of St. John the Baptist, Littleworth and St. John the Baptist, Tixall with St. Mary the Virgin, Ingestre.

The Benefice worships together on the fifth Sunday of the month at one of the three churches. The Benefice shares the same Rector and Ministry Team but are governed separately by their individual PCCs.

Tixall Church serves the small hamlet of Tixall near Stafford and is set amongst beautiful Staffordshire countryside. One of the more historic churches in the Benefice, there has been a church on the site since the 13th Century. The present church was built in 1848 by John Chetwynd Talbot, a member of the local landowing family which are today Earls of Shrewsbury.

Today the church is part of the United Benefice with Littleworth and Ingestre and still a beautiful place to worship every other Sunday.

Ingestre Church is the Benefice's oldest church, built in 1676 and supposedly designed by Sir Christopher Wren (the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral). It was overseen by the local Chetwynd Family, ancestors of the present Earl of Shrewsbury but was erected as a parish church, not a private chapel.

Like St. John's at Tixall and St. John's in Stafford, Ingestre Church is now part of the same Benefice under one Rector but still holds regular services for the local community.