Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, A692
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240728
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, A692
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240728
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, A692
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, A692
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 15134 53457
Details
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.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439238
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dipton and Collierly Parish Magazine in April, (1885)
Dipton and Collierly Parish Magazine in June, (1885)
Dipton and Collierly Parish Magazine in May, (1885)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/41759
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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