Elton St John

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Elton St John

[Population 1911: 112]

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The Parish Church is a neat stone building in the gothic style, erected, in 1840, on the site of the old church, and consists of a nave, chancel, and south porch, with a bell turret at the western gable. The eastern window is filled with stained glass, containing representations of the Crucifixion and Resurection, erected to the memory of the late G.W. Sutton, Esq., by his widow. A recumbent effigy of a knight in armour, which formerly lay beneath an arch in the north wall of the nave, is now placed within the altar rails. The parish register commences in 1573. From William de Homez, the advowson of Elton passed to the Gowers and Boweses, and afterwards to the Errigntons and Jeffersons. The Erringtons' right of presentation passed, with their property, to the Shaftos, and is now held by J.S. Sutton, Esq.; and the turn of the Jeffersons is supplied by T. and J. Hogg, Esqs. The benefice, a rectory, is a discharged living, in the deanery of Stockton, valued in the Liber Regis at £7 6s. 5½d.; gross income, £180. Incumbent - Rev. James Milner. [Whellan's History, Topography and Directory of Durham (and Newcastle) (1856), page 551.]

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