Monumental Inscriptions
of St. John the Baptist, St John's Chapel, Weardale
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The lists of Monumental Inscriptions on these pages have been kindly provided by the Weardale Field Study Society and are part of an ongoing project to transcribe all Monumental Inscriptions in Weardale and make them freely available to the public. The North Pennine Ancestors web site is grateful for the opportunity to assist with this project by publishing these lists.
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The task of transcribing and the subsequent indexing of Monumental Inscriptions at Eastgate,  Rookhope & Stanhope was carried out during 2005. This was followed in 2006 by Monumental Inscriptions in the Cowshill area and then in 2007 with St John's Chapel and Westgate. The work was made possible by a grant from the Countryside Agency for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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With thanks to Margaret Manchester, members of the Weardale Field Study Society and other volunteers for the hard work put into this project.
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St. John's Chapel, St. John the Baptist Index
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The 520 memorials in this transcription are numbered sequentially from East to West (approximately). The intention has been to transcribe all readable text. The text line breaks in each transcription are indicated by the symbol “/”, and in those cases where text appears on more than one face of the memorial the symbol “//” is used to separate the faces. A small number of headstones had either fallen or had been laid face down and could not be read, but they are retained in the numbering system.
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The monuments in St John’s Chapel churchyard were previously transcribed almost exactly one hundred years ago by Messrs Leighton and Robinson and deposited in Newcastle Central Reference Library. A typed transcript (in abbreviated format) of this was subsequently made by G. Nicholson. The numbering scheme for this 1907 transcription ran from West to East. (The 1907 numbers are indicated in column C of the spreadsheet). Well over half of the approximately 250 monuments noted in 1907 were found, and the vast majority of them were still readable.
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St. John's Chapel Index        St John's Chapel Memorials        Top of Page
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SURNAME                                        GIVEN NAME                                                AGE              YEAR                   MEMORIAL No        1907 No