St John The Evangelist

Norman style.

richly-carved fruit and flowers on principal vertical members

Many original iron hinges and latches on this C17 woodwork.

square pulpit of similar date in panelled wood, now in transept.

Octagonal boarded pulpit, with Gothic blind tracery.

Glass mostly clear

Pedestal and bowl font, possibly C17, restored from vicarage garden, has scrolled cover. (Pickering's font now in Church of St. Peter, Byers Green, Spennymoor).

Wood altar table probably C17 with some restoration.

Monuments include reused crocketed C14 stone frame on north chancel wall with brass with stencilled decoration to Sir Robert Johnson Eden, d. 1844.

Resited carved stones in Eden pew include cross slab, probably C13, with spade and sword, tegulated coped slab and stone fragment with inscription 'his blood by God be shed'.

Classical wall monument in white on black, by G. Green, Newcastle, to John Smith Esq., died 1832, who left ?200 for 10 widows of the parish.

Historical note: remarkable for having withstood siege, in 1143-6, when the intruding bishop William Cumyn is said to have dug a ditch around the church.

P.E. Ryder, The Medieval Cross Slab Grave Cover in County Durham, Durham 1985, 101. (Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, Research Report No. 1).