Ingleton St John

Parish Notes Durham

Ingleton St John

[Population 1911: 573]

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Church

The Chapel, dedicated to St. John, is a neat, plain edifice, in the early pointed style, and consists of a nave and chancel, the latter being entered by an elegant archway. There is a bell-turret and an entrance porch at the west: the chapel contains 206 sittings, the whole of which are free and unappropriated. The cost of erection, amounting to £430, was defrayed by subscription, and by a donation of £100 from the Church Building Society, and a similar sum from the Duke of Cleveland. A spacious burial ground is attached. The living is in the patronage of the Vicar of Staindrop; incumbent, the Rev. Martin Wright. [Whellan's History, Topography and Directory of Durham (and Newcastle) (1856), page 450.]

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Townships

Ingleton chapelry district was formed by an order in council, bearing date January 13th, 1845; and consisted of the townships of Hilton, Ingleton, and Wackerfield; but by an order in council January 8th, 1850, the township of Killerby, in the parish of Heighington, was separated from the said parish, and united to this chapelry district. It is bound on the north by the parochial chapelry of St. Helen's Auckland, on the north-west by the parish of Cockfield, on the west and south-west by a portion of Staindrop parish, and on the south and east by the parish of Gainford. [Whellan's History, Topography and Directory of Durham (and Newcastle) (1856), page 449.]

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