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St Andrew's Church, Sedbergh 
St Andrew's Church, Sedbergh, from the northLocation in Cumbria
St Andrew's Church, SedberghCoordinates: 54°19′23″N 2°31′43″W / 54.3231°N 2.5285°W OS grid reference SD 657 921 Location Sedbergh, Cumbria Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Andrew, Sedbergh History Dedication Saint Andrew Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade I Designated 16 March 1964 Architect(s) Paley and Austin (restoration) Architectural type Church Style Norman, Gothic Specifications Materials Rubble with sandstone dressings
Green slate roofsAdministration Parish Sedbergh, Cautley and Garsdale Deanery Ewecross Archdeaconry Craven Diocese Bradford Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Revd Canon Alan William Fell St Andrew's Church, Sedbergh, is located in Main Street, Sedbergh, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ewecross, the archdeaconry of Craven, and the diocese of Bradford. Its benefice is united with those of St Mark, Cautley, and St John the Baptist, Garsdale, to form the benefice of Sedbergh, Cautley and Garsdale.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.[2]
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History
The present church dates mainly from about 1500, but fabric from earlier churches has been incorporated.[2] A major restoation was carried out in 1886 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin.[3] The churchyard is said to contain a yew tree under which George Fox preached and contains the unmarked grave of American loyalist and Anglican missionary to colonial South Carolina, Revd. Charles Woodmason (ca. 1720-1789). [4]
Architecture
Exterior
St Andrew's is constructed in rubble stone with sandstone quoins and dressings; it has a green slate roof. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory and a porch, a north aisle with a vestry at the east end, a south aisle with a chapel at the south end and a porch, a chancel, and a west tower. The tower is in three stages, with the top stage slightly corbelled out. At the summit is an embattled parapet with pinnacles at the corners. It has buttresses on the west side, a three-light west window, and three-light louvred bell openings. Along both sides of the clerestory are five three-light windows. The aisles have embattled parapets and four-light windows. The south porch is gabled with a niche above the entrance, and a coped parapet. In the wall of the south chapel is a priest's door with a sundial above it, and a three-light window. The north porch is smaller than the south, and is also gabled. It has a round-headed entrance, above which is a small niche containing a statue, and a large carved stone finial. The inner doorway is also round-headed, and is said to be Norman. At the northeast corner of the north aisle is a flying buttress. The east end contains three windows; the vestry and chancel windows have three lights, and the chapel window has four lights.[2]
Interior
The two arcades differ, the south arcade having six bays, and the north arcade eight bays. Most of the piers are cylindrical, and most of the arches are round-headed. The church contains wall memorials, and a 19th-century pulpit with a restored 18th-century sounding board.[2] The two-manual organ was built in 1895 by Norman Brothers and Beard, and repaired and overhauled in 1986 by Rushworth and Dreaper of Liverpool.[5] The ring consists of eight bells, all cast in 1897 by John Taylor and Company of Loughborough.[6]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- ^ Sedbergh: St Andrew, Sedbergh, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/sedbergh-st-andrew/, retrieved 9 October 2011
- ^ a b c d "Church of St Andrew, Sedbergh", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1384191, retrieved 9 October 2011
- ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 87, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
- ^ Arthur T. Winn, M.A. The Registers of The Parish of Sedbergh, Co. York. 1594-1800. Part III.: Burials. Sedbergh, Eng.: Jackson & Son, 1912, p. 207.
- ^ Yorkshire, West Riding (Cumbria), Sedbergh, St. Andrew (D00936), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D00936, retrieved 9 October 2011
- ^ Sedbergh, S Andrew, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=sedbergh&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=SEDBERGH, retrieved 9 October 2011
External links
Categories:- Church of England churches in Cumbria
- Grade I listed churches
- Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria
- Norman architecture
- English Gothic architecture
- Diocese of Bradford
- Paley and Austin buildings
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