During the service, the priest or other minister delivers a short address, or sermon, from the pulpit. This one was made by the architect J. Drayton Wyatt and his contractor R. Tooley in 1880.
The original plan for the church had been to have two pulpits, one high one for sermons and a low one for reading from the Bible,
a typical ‘Evangelical’ form. If they were installed, they were pulled out as part of the refurbishments of the 1870s.
The pulpit is designed in a simple gothic style that matches Wyatt’s reredos. It contains a panel showing an image of St John the Evangelist, holding his gospel book and accompanied by St Peter. This is a reproduction of an original by Albrecht Dürer in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.