The Church Today Nowadays St John's Church serves both Moggerhanger and Chalton. The Parish is in a group with the villages of Cople and Willington, our vicar, the Rev Lynda Klimas cares for all three. There are services every Sunday and the Church building itself is used by the community as a meeting place and shop. The shop is run by volunteers and is open Monday to Saturday mornings (10 - 12am) and Tuesday and Thursday afternoons (3.15 - 4.15pm). Other events such as craft fairs and coffee mornings are held here too.

An extract from the Bedford Times (7.8.1860) reads:
'This beautiful little church does great credit to the architect, Mr Slater of London and to Mr Coquest of Kempston, the builder. It is in the early Norman style, of Kempston stone elegantly varied with red sandstone from the quarries at Silsoe. The carving of the capitals and the font are exquisite and the marble floor and the painted windows in the chancel are very rich.

Mrs Dawkins has given a large burial ground fenced by a handsome stone wall and is building an excellent parsonage adjoining and she has endowed the living with £60 a year to which £40 a year is added from the revenues from the mother church at Blunham. The internal fittings and decorations are all in excellent taste. The vestry, belfry and tower are thoroughly handsome and substantial'.

Points of Interest
The ROOF is open and constructed from oak grown on the Moggerhanger Estate. The PILLARS are of Ancaster stone with carved capitals; and arcades are of the same material intermixed with Harlestone stone.

The APSE is more highly decorated than the rest of the Church and contains the mausoleum where Rev'd Dawkins and his wife (who died in 1863) are buried. In front of the ALTAR is a slab of Derbyshire marble inlaid with a floriated cross of brass. The space within the altar rails is inlaid with different coloured marbles.

The three east WINDOWS (above the altar) are filled with stained glass by Clayton & Bell of London and are of the Crucifixion, Resurection and Ascension.

Other stained glass windows, added at a later date, are to the memory of Lucy Emma Thornton (1860), Caroline Margret Thornton (1881), Harry Thornton (1885), Jerimiah Titmas (1888), Gertrude Emily Duberly (1898), Louisa M Dawkins (1907 and 1909), Edward Henry Frederick Dawkins (1912), Arthur Stephen Thornton (1913), Charles Stuart Thornton and Harry Godfrey Thornton.

The handsome circular FONT is situated near the South Door. The ORGAN was built by Messrs Bevington and was the gift of Colonel William Thornton. Above the organ is a screen that was fitted to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra bearing the inscription 'ER 1902 AR'.