Burtreeford - Killhope

MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS
St JOHN the BAPTIST
St JOHN’S CHAPEL in WEARDALE
Transcribed for The Weardale Museum by Ken Heatherington 2007 – 2008.
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.
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.