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Christ Church, Glasson 
Christ Church, Glasson, from the southeastLocation in Lancashire
Christ Church, GlassonCoordinates: 53°59′47″N 2°50′34″W / 53.9965°N 2.8427°W OS grid reference SD 448 559 Location Glasson, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website Christ Church, Glasson History Consecrated 29 June 1840 Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 2 May 1968 Architect(s) Edmund Sharpe Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1839 Completed 1932 Administration Parish Christ Church, Glasson Deanery Lancaster Archdeaconry Lancaster Diocese Blackburn Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Rev M. B. Roberts Laity Churchwarden(s) Mrs E. Makinson
Mr D. J. StockdaleParish administrator Mrs M. Stockdale Christ Church, Glasson, is in the village of Glasson, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Lancaster, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
Christ Church was built in 1839–40 and designed by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe.[3] It was consecrated on 29 June 1840 by the Bishop of Chester. The original chancel was "short" and "stubby", and had a triple stepped lancet east window.[4] The present chancel and the vestry were added in 1931–32 and designed by Sharpe's successors Austin and Paley. The space under the west gallery was enclosed in 1988 to form a separate room.[5]
Architecture
The church is constructed in sandstone rubble with a slate roof. Its plan consists of a nave with a chancel at a lower level. The walls of the nave are divided by buttresses into four bays; the westernmost bays have a single lancet window, while the other three bays contain triple stepped lancets. The chancel is divided into two bays with two-light windows. The east window is a triple stepped lancet. The west end contains an arched doorway flanked by lancet windows and with another lancet above, angle buttresses; on the gable is a bellcote. Inside the church is a west gallery.[2] The east window contains stained glass dating from 1979 by Joseph Fisher of Shrigley and Hunt. The stained glass elsewhere dates from the 19th century; some of this may also be by designers from Shrigley and Hunt.[5]
See also
- List of architectural works by Edmund Sharpe
- List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1916–44)
References
- ^ Glasson, Christ Church, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/glasson-christ-church/, retrieved 2 April 2010
- ^ a b "Christ Church, Glasson Dock", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1071725, retrieved 15 May 2011
- ^ Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 304, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
- ^ Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, pp. 134, 136
- ^ a b Lancashire Churches: Glasson, Christ Church, Tony Boughen, http://www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/glasson.htm, retrieved 2 April 2010
Categories:- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Religious buildings completed in 1840
- 18th-century Church of England church buildings
- 19th-century church buildings
- Buildings and structures completed in 1932
- Diocese of Blackburn
- Edmund Sharpe buildings
- Buildings and structures in Lancaster
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