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St Mary's Church, Walton 
St Mary's Church, Walton, from the westLocation Cumbria
St Mary's Church, WaltonCoordinates: 54°58′22″N 2°44′53″W / 54.9727°N 2.7480°W OS grid reference NY 522 645 Location Walton, Cumbria Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Mary, Walton Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II* Designated 16 January 1984 Architect(s) Paley and Austin Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Completed 1870 Specifications Materials Sandstone, slate roofs Administration Parish Lanercost with Kirkambeck and Walton Deanery Brampton Archdeaconry Carlisle Diocese Carlisle Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Revd Roderick David Allon-Smith St Mary's Church, Walton, is in the village of Walton, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Brampton, the archdeaconry of Carlisle, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of four nearby parishes.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.[2]
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History
The present church was built in 1869–70 on the site of a previous medieval church, which had itself been rebuilt in 1811 and extended in 1843.[2] The architects were the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin.[3]
Architecture
Exterior
St Mary's is constructed in red sandstone. It has slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles. The plan consists of a four-bay nave, a north aisle, a three-bay chancel, and a tower incorporating a porch at the northwest. On the west wall of the tower is a stair turret. The entrance to the porch is through a pointed doorway on the north side.[2] The bell openings are also pointed, they contain louvres, and are Early English in style.[2][4] On top of the tower is a pyramidal roof with small louvres. The sides of the church differ. The south side contains tall lancet windows and one quatrefoil. The north side has a catslide roof extending from the ridge to the edge of the aisle.[4] It contains smaller lancet windows.[2] At the west end are a pair of lancet windows and a rose window. At the east end are three equal-sized lancet windows with a quatrefoil above.[2][4]
Interior
The pews and all the furnishings date from the 19th or early 20th century. At the base of the font is a fragment of a cross from the 10th or 11th century. On the walls are marble memorial plaques moved from the earlier church.[2] The reredos dates from 1899 and consists of a mosaic framed in alabaster. The stained glass in the east window is by William Wailes and is dated 1869. In the north aisle is a window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne from about 1912.[4] The age of the single-manual orgen is not known, but it "could be a very old instrument".[5]
External features
In the churchyard is a hearse house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed in calciferous sandstone and has a slate roof. It has been listed at Grade II.[6] It is probable that its round-arched window comes from the 1813 church.[4]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- ^ St Mary, Walton, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/walton-st-mary/, retrieved 9 June 2011
- ^ a b c d e f g "Church of St Mary, Walton", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1157868, retrieved 9 June 2011
- ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 88, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
- ^ a b c d e Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 656, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
- ^ Cumberland (Cumbria), Walton, St. Mary (D00949), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D00949, retrieved 9 June 2011
- ^ "Hearse House northeast of Church of St Mary, Walton", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1087605, retrieved 9 June 2011
Categories:- Religious buildings completed in 1870
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in Cumbria
- Church of England churches in Cumbria
- Grade II* listed churches
- Grade II* listed buildings in Cumbria
- Diocese of Carlisle
- Paley and Austin buildings
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