Description

NZ 15 SE STANLEY A 692 (North side)
Dipton
7/130 Church of St. John
II
Parish church. 1885-6 by Oliver and Leeson; mason William Foster, Durham.
Some restoration of south transept roof and addition of vestry after fire.
Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; roof of purple,
green and blue slates with stone gable copings. Early English style. Nave
with south porch; transepts; crossing tower; chancel with south vestry and
north boiler room and organ chamber. Gabled porch has wide-chamfered open
2-centred arch under dripmould; side buttresses; 2- and 3-light windows in
nave and transepts, stepped 5-light west window and east windows, all in 2-
centred-arched panels; sill string, stepped to west window; west end buttresses
and one nave buttress. Tower has paired 2-light windows with plate tracery
under moulded corbel table and roll-moulded stepped battlemented parapet; high
hipped roof with wrought-iron weather-cock.
Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings; arch-braced collared roof
trusses on stone corbels. Wide 2-centred arches at crossing, plain chamfered
plaster to nave and transepts; chancel arch chamfered ashlar with similar inner
corbelled arch, on stop-chamfered responds with impost string. Chamfered 2-
centred rerearches to all windows. Sill string; in chancel, stepped to form
drip over transept door to vestry; mask-stopped drip over vestry door in
chancel. Plain glass in geometric patterns and simple colours. Octagonal
Gothic-style stone font. First World War memorial plaque.
Source: Dipton and Collierly Parish Magazine, April, May and June 1855.

Listing NGR: NZ1513453457

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533635

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)