- St John the Evangelist's Church, Newton Arlosh
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St John the Evangelist's Church,
Newton Arlosh
St John's Church from the southLocation in Cumbria
St John the Evangelist's Church,
Newton ArloshCoordinates: 54°53′08″N 3°15′02″W / 54.8855°N 3.2506°W OS grid reference NY 198 552 Location Newton Arlosh, Cumbria Country England Denomination Anglican Website Newton Arlosh, St John History Founded 1303 Founder(s) Holm Cultram Abbey Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade I Designated 1 April 1967 Architectural type Church Style Fortified Groundbreaking 1303 Completed 1894 Specifications Materials Sandstone with cobbles Administration Parish St John, Newton Arlosh Deanery Carlisle Archdeaconry Carlisle Diocese Carlisle Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Revd Peter Blackett St John the Evangelist's Church, Newton Arlosh, is in the village of Newton Arlosh, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Carlisle, the archdeaconry of Carlisle, and the diocese of Carlisle.[1] Originally a fortified church, it was extended in the 19th century. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.[2]
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History
St John's was built in 1303 by the monks of Holm Cultram Abbey.[3] It was granted a licence to crenellate on 11 April 1304. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, the church remained in ruins until it was restored and extended by Sarah Losh in 1844.[2] The extension involved the building of a chancel at right angles to the north of the nave. In 1894 the church was further restored and refurnished.[2]
Architecture
Exterior
The original church was built in large red sandstone blocks mixed with cobbles and the extension is in red sandstone; all the roofs are covered in sandstone slates, other than the lead on the roof of the tower. Its plan consists of a square fortified west tower with very thick walls, and a two-bay fortified nave. Extending to the north is a two-bay chancel with an apsidal vestry on its east wall.[2] There is no external entrance to the tower; it is entered from the interior of the church at the level of the first floor. Its ground level is barrel vaulted.[4] Inside the tower a stone spiral staircase leads to a chamber on the upper floor containing a fireplace. All the windows in the tower are arrow-slits, some of them original and some from the Victorian restoration. The upper part of the tower has been restored; it has a battlemented parapet and, on the south side a projecting turret on corbels. In the south wall of the nave is a narrow doorway and more arrow-slit windows. The chancel has a round-arched doorway and lancet windows; in the vestry are round-headed windows.[2] Standing on the ridge of the nave roof towards its east end is a carved eagle by Sarah Losh.[3]
Interior
There is further work by Sarah Losh inside the church. On the east wall of the nave, flanking the position of the original altar are corbels in the shape of rams' heads. Also by her is the lectern with a base of bog oak, and another base in the form of a palm tree that was intended to form part of the pulpit. The oldest item of furniture is the font, brought from Holm Cultram Abbey.[3] It dates from the 13th century and consists of an octagonal bowl with crocketed gables on a fragmentary stem.[2]
See also
- Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria
References
- ^ St John the Evangelist, Newton Arlosh, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/newton-arlosh-st-john-the-evangelist/, retrieved 3 April 2010
- ^ a b c d e f "Church of St John the Baptist, Holme East Waver", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1212611, retrieved 19 May 2011
- ^ a b c Newton Arlosh - St John's Church, Visit Cumbria, http://www.visitcumbria.com/car/chc3.htm, retrieved 3 April 2010
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002) [1967], Cumberland and Westmorland, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 170–171, ISBN 0-300-09590-2
Categories:- Church of England churches in Cumbria
- Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria
- 1300s architecture
- Religious buildings completed in 1844
- 19th-century Church of England church buildings
- Fortified churches
- Diocese of Carlisle
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
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