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St Michael's Church, Bootle Location in Cumbria
St Michael's Church, BootleCoordinates: 54°17′00″N 3°22′22″W / 54.2834°N 3.3728°W OS grid reference SD 107 884 Location Bootle, Cumbria Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Michael, Bootle History Dedication Saint Michael Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 8 September 1967 Architect(s) H. J. Underwood (transepts) Architectural type Church Style Gothic Specifications Materials Stone, slate roofs Administration Parish Bootle Deanery Calder Archdeaconry West Cumberland Diocese Carlisle Province York Clergy Rector Revd Ian James St Michael's Church, Bootle, is located in the village of Bootle, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice has been united with those of St John the Baptist, Corney, St Mary, Whicham, and St Mary, Whitbeck.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
The church originated in the medieval era, but was considerably restored during the 19th century.[2] The transepts were added in 1837 by H. J. Underwood, who changed the windows in the nave to match those in the transepts. Building of the tower started soon after 1850, but was not completed until 1882.[3] Fittings in the chancel and the pulpit were added in 1890 by the Lancaster architects Paley, Austin and Paley.[4]
Architecture
Exterior
St Michael's is constructed in stone rubble with ashlar dressings, the chancel is roughcast, and the roofs are slated. Its plan is cruciform, consisting of a two-bay nave with north and south transepts, a chancel with a south organ loft, and a west tower. The tower has angle buttresses, with a west doorway, and two lancet windows and a clock face above it. The bell openings consist of pairs of louvred lancets, flanked by a blind lancet on each side. Above these is a Lombard frieze under a coped parapet with corner pinnacles. On the summit of the tower is a pyramidal roof surmounted by a cross. The nave contains lancet windows. In the transepts are stepped triple lancets with single lancets on the sides. The east window is round-headed with three lights, above which is a coped gable with a cross. On the north side of the chancel is a two-light window and a doorway. On the south side is the organ loft with lancet windows.[2]
Interior
At the entrances to the transepts are two-bay arcades. The chancel arch is round and double chamfered. The font is octagonal and stands on a 19th-century base. It it carved with shields, the initials R. B., and the Hudleston arms, and carries an inscription in black letters. In the chancel is a piscina in a 19th-century surround, and a brass to Sir Hugh Askew who died in 1561.[2] The stained glass in the east window is by Hardman, in the north wall of the chancel is a window dated 1899 by Henry Holiday, and in the transepts are windows by Ward and Hughes dating from the mid-1880s.[3] The two manual organ was built in about 1890 by Gray and Davison, and was restored and revoiced in 1945 by Wilkinson.[5]
External features
In the churchyard is an ashlar sundial consisting of three round steps and a baluster shaft. It dates probably from the 18th century, and is listed at Grade II.[6] Also in the churchyard, and listed at Grade II is a monument dated 1780 consisting of a carved headstone.[7] The churchyard cross, dating from 1897 was designed by Paley, Austin and Paley.[3]
See also
- List of works by Paley, Austin and Paley
References
- ^ St Michael, Bootle, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/bootle-st-michael/, retrieved 18 October 2011
- ^ a b c d Church of St Michael, Bootle (1086650). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
- ^ a b c Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 161–162, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
- ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, pp. 89–90, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
- ^ Cumberland (Cumbria), Bootle, St. Michael and All Angels (D00874), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D00874, retrieved 18 October 2011
- ^ Sundial approximately 3 metres south of Church of St Michael, Bootle (1336051). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
- ^ Shaw monument approximately 20 metres south of Church of St Michael, Bootle (1086651). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
External links
Categories:- Church of England churches in Cumbria
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Cumbria
- English Gothic architecture
- Diocese of Carlisle
- Paley, Austin and Paley buildings
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