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St Bridget's Church, Calder Bridge 
St Bridget's Church, Calder Bridge, from the south
St Bridget's Church, Calder BridgeCoordinates: 54°26′27″N 3°28′44″W / 54.4407°N 3.4790°W OS grid reference NY 041 060 Location Calder Bridge,
near Beckermet, CumbriaCountry England Denomination Anglican Website St Bridget, Beckermet History Founder(s) Thomas Irwin Dedication St Bridget Consecrated 24 June 1844 Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 14 July 1989 Architect(s) Edmund Sharpe Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Completed 1842 Administration Parish St Bridget,
Beckermet and PonsonbyDeanery Calder Archdeaconry West Cumberland Diocese Carlisle Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Revd Alison Edwina Hart St Bridget's Church, Calder Bridge, is on the north side of the A595 road in the village of Calder Bridge, near Beckermet, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
St Bridget's was built between 1840 and 1842 to a design by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe.[3] It was paid for by Thomas Irwin of Calder Abbey. The church was opened for worship in May 1842, and consecrated on 24 June 1844 by Rt Revd John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester.[4]
Architecture
The church is constructed in local red sandstone ashlar with a slate roof.[2][4][3] Its plan is cruciform,[4] with a west tower, a three-bay nave, long transepts, and a short chancel, with a north vestry, and a south organ loft. The windows are lancets and around the church are buttresses. In the tower are louvred bell-openings, a corbelled parapet and pinnacles.[2] There are clock faces on three sides of the top stage of the tower.[4] The Pre-Raphaelite stained glass, made by Powells and dated 1879, was designed by H. E. Wooldridge and H. J. Burrow.[3] The memorials in the north transept include one to Thomas Irwin and his wife.[4]
See also
- List of architectural works by Edmund Sharpe
References
- ^ Beckermet, St Bridget, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/beckermet-st-bridget/, retrieved 20 April 2010
- ^ a b c "Church of St Bridget, Calder Bridge, Beckermet", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1086589, retrieved 12 May 2011
- ^ a b c Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 217, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
- ^ a b c d e Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, p. 178
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Categories:- Church of England churches in Cumbria
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Cumbria
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Religious buildings completed in 1842
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Diocese of Carlisle
- Edmund Sharpe buildings
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