Description

STANHOPE STOTFIELD BURN
NY 94 SW Rookhope

10/277 Church of St. John
the Evangelist
GV II
Parish church,1905 by Caroë and Passmore, replacing 1822-4 church on lower site
beside burn. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins; Welsh
slate roof with stone gable copings. Nave with south porch; chancel with south
vestry and organ chamber. Gabled porch has deeply-chamfered open round arch;
boarded inner door. Round-headed narrow windows in buttressed bays of nave and
3 similar windows in west end and in south gable of vestry. 3-light east
window. Low-pitched roof has gabled west bellcote above overhanging gabled
bellcote.

Interior: stone with ashlar dressings; arch-braced collar-beam roof with wind
braces. Round arch to chancel and chamfered round arch to organ; wide segmental
arch over sedilia. Simple octagonal stone pedestal font with ogee-shaped C17
wood cover. Memorials to Featherstone family, removed from former church:
white marble oval on black mount, to Mrs Ann Featherstone died 1834 and buried
in Church of St. John, Newcastle; and high-relief Featherstone arms in wood.

Listing NGR: NY9428542299

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525760

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]