Church Of St John The Evangelist

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