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St John the Baptist's Church, Blawith 
St John the Baptist's Church, BlawithLocation in Cumbria
St John the Baptist's Church, BlawithCoordinates: 54°17′09″N 3°05′38″W / 54.2857°N 3.0940°W OS grid reference SD 288 883 Location Blawith, Cumbria Country England Denomination Anglican Website Churches Conservation Trust History Dedication Saint John the Baptist Architecture Functional status Redundant Architect(s) E. G. Paley Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1862 Completed 1863 Construction cost £1,600 (£120,000 as of 2011) Closed 1998 Specifications Capacity 171 Materials Whinstone, slate roof St John the Baptist's Church, Blawith, is a redundant Anglican church in the settlement of Blawith, Cumbria, England. It stands to the east of the A5084 road, south of Coniston Water in the Lake District. The church is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[1]
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New church
St John's was designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley and was built in 1862–63. It is constructed in whinstone with a slate roof, and was built to replace an older church, also dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.[1] Its plan consists of a nave, with a short chancel and a bellcote. The windows are lancets containing plate tracery.[2] The church cost £1,600 (£120,000 as of 2011),[3] and had seating for a congregation of 171. Its architectural style is Gothic Revival, and it contains stained glass windows in the chancel depicting the Ascension, the Presentation in the Temple, and the Adoration of the Magi.[4] In 1914, Paley's successors Austin, Paley and Austin carried out a restoration, and in 1926 Austin and Paley renovated the northwest wall and buttresses.[5] The church was declared redundant on 1 March 1988, and was vested in the Trust on 23 June 1993.[6]
Old church
The ruins of the older church remain nearby, on the other side of the road (54°17′05″N 3°05′42″W / 54.2847°N 3.0949°W). This church was built in the 16th century and it was rebuilt in 1749.[7] It was "little better than a barn, of small dimensions, without a tower or steeple" and by 1861 was in "so ruinous a condition" that it had to be replaced.[8] The remains consist of stone walls rising to a height of between 3 metres (10 ft) and 6 metres (20 ft), with a taller structure at the west end. The ruins have been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[7]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley
- List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England
References
- ^ a b Church of St John the Baptist, Blawith, Cumbria, Churches Conservation Trust, http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/Church-of-St-John-the-Baptist-Blawith-Cumbria/, retrieved 28 March 2011
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002) [1969], North Lancashire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 73, ISBN 0-300-09617-8
- ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
- ^ St John the Baptist, Blawith, GENUKI, http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Blawith/StJohntheBaptist.shtml, retrieved 21 September 2010
- ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 98, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
- ^ (PDF) Diocese of Carlisle: All Schemes, Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2010, p. 1, http://www.churchofengland.org/media/810401/carlisle%20-%20all%20schemes.pdf, retrieved 3 April 2011
- ^ a b "Ruins of former Church of St John, Blawith and Subberthwaite", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1326663, retrieved 11 May 2011
- ^ Pastscape: St John's Church, English Heritage, http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=38512, retrieved 21 September 2010
External links
Categories:- Grade II listed buildings in Cumbria
- 16th-century architecture
- Ruins in Cumbria
- Religious buildings completed in 1863
- 19th-century church buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust
- E. G. Paley buildings
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