Saint John's Church, Front Street, Dipton (Dipton)
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.
The church is known to contain a number of features dedicated as war memorials (1-2).
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Victorian (1837 to 1901)
First World War (1914 to 1918)
First World War (1914 to 1918)
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