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St Mary's Church, Allithwaite
St Mary's Church, Allithwaite, from the southLocation in Cumbria Coordinates: 54°10′59″N 2°56′34″W / 54.1830°N 2.9429°W Location Allithwaite, Cumbria Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Mary, Allithwaite Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Architect(s) E. G. Paley Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1864 Completed 1865 Specifications Materials Limestone with sandstone dressings
Slate roofsAdministration Parish St Mary, Allithwaite Deanery Windermere Archdeaconry Westmoreland and Furness Diocese Carlisle Province York Clergy Rector Revd Canon Nicholas John Ash St Mary's Church, Allithwaite, is in the village of Allithwaite, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmoreland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of St Mary and St Michael, Cartmel, St Peter, Field Broughton, St John the Baptist, Flookburgh, St Paul, Grange-over-Sands, Grange Fell Church, Grange-over-Sands, and St Paul, Lindale.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
The church was built in 1864–65 and designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley. At the same time Paley designed the village school and vicarage.[3]
Architecture
St Mary's is constructed in rock-faced limestone; it has sandstone ashlar dressings, and slate roofs.[2] The architectural style is Decorated.[3] Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a south aisle under a separate roof, a south porch, and a two-bay chancel with a chapel and organ loft to the north. At the west end is an octagonal bell turret surmounted by a spirelet. Internally, the arcade is carried on round piers. The font is square and plain, carried on an octagonal shaft. The pulpit is carved with corbelled triangular arches.[2] In the east window is stained glass from 1921 by Morris & Co. The stained glass in the east window in the aisle dates from 1950 and is by Abbot and Company. Also in the aisle are two windows with a musical theme, designed by Paul G. Chapman.[3] The two-manual organ was designed by Albert Keates, and was restored in about 1930.[4]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley
References
- ^ St Mary, Allithwaite, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/allithwaite-st-mary/, retrieved 5 June 2011
- ^ a b c "Church of St Mary, Lower Allithwaite", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1335764, retrieved 5 June 2011
- ^ a b c Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 92, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
- ^ Lancashire (Cumbria), Allithwaite, St. Mary (N10935), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N10935, retrieved 5 June 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Cumbria
- Diocese of Carlisle
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Cumbria
- Gothic Revival architecture in Cumbria
- Religious buildings completed in 1865
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- E. G. Paley buildings
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