A monument to God, King and Empire

The Church of St John the Evangelist

East Witton, Wensleydale, Yorkshire.

One the front of the Church it has a memorial stone:

"In the Year of our Lord

One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nine

When the People of the United Empire

Grateful for the Security and Happinefs

Enjoyed the mild and just Government

Of Their virtuous and pious Monarch

Returned Solemn and Public Thanks to

ALMIGHTY GOD

That by the Protection of Divine Providence

His Majesty King George the Third

Had been Preserved to enter on

The Fifteenth Year of His Reign;

The Right Honourable Thomas Bruce Brundenell Bruce

EARL of AILESBURY

The Commemoration of the Event

First Designed

And thence carried into Effect

The Building of this

CHURCH"

Done