The Mayor's Service

• Each year after the mayor making has taken place in Devizes Town Hall the newly elected mayor and the Town Councillors come as a Council to St John's Church to celebrate the occasion. 
• There is a procession from the Town Hall to the church lead by the Mayor's Mace Bearer and Cup Bearer and the Mayor is met at the church door by the Rector and Churchwardens and escorted to the Mayor's seat in the Corporation Stalls in the Norman Chancel of the church.
• It is a very grand occasion at which the ancient prayer of Devizes is used and the community can commit the new political year to God.

Remembrance Sunday

• St John's Church is the focal point in North Wiltshire for the Annual Remembrance Day Commemoration.
• The Mayor & Council, the guests, often including the Lord Lieutenant of the County, the High Sherriff and the Member of Parliament for the Devizes constituency all come to St John's to give thanks for the sacrifices made by those who died in the service of their country.