St John The Baptist

Outside: of the C12 the mighty crossing tower and the mid C12 door at west end with its typical inner order of beak-heads and outer order or chevron, see also chevron window surrounds to tower

three large figures with C19 heads

The Gild Chapel, started in the early C13, extended to the west and was incorporated with the church (having been previously separate) in the C15, when it was reduced from the west

Low C12 crossing arches, partly blocked to north and south to support added weight of tower and spire: the C12 billet mould and roof-lines can be traced, they continue across the stair-turret at south west corner which partly masks the west crossing arch, the tympanum of its doorway matches the design of the adjacent caps so the irregularity was presumably an error in design and not an accident of history

Tall arches with C15 label-heads with amusing hats

C15 tie-beam roof

some wall-paintings survive

At the east end of the north arcade a chantry with (restored) polychrome wooden screens and stone canopy over altar (now the Chapel of St Peter, restored by Street in 1873). The south transept and south chapel, unusually, retain their clutter of tomb-chests, a large one in the south transept with colour and shield-bearing angels under crocketed canopies

Magnificent Tanfield monument in north chapel 1628 with cadavers below and a wrought-iron palisade

Very numerous fittings: excellent font with Rood, Perpendicular pulpit (restored 1870), medieval glass in west and east windows' tracery lights, Hardman east window, much Kempe glass and a lot of memorials