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St Peter's Church, Heversham 
St Peter's Church, Heversham, from the southLocation in Cumbria
St Peter's Church, HevershamCoordinates: 54°14′37″N 2°46′29″W / 54.24373°N 2.77484°W OS grid reference SD 496 834 Location Heversham, Cumbria Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Peter, Heversham History Dedication Saint Peter Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II* Designated 12 February 1962 Architect(s) Paley and Austin (restoration) Architectural type Church Style Norman, Perpendicular,
Gothic RevivalCompleted 1868 Specifications Materials Limestone and sandstone Administration Parish Heversham Deanery Kendal Archdeaconry Westmoreland and Furness Diocese Carlisle Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Revd Susan Elizabeth Wilson St Peter's Church, Heversham, is in the village of Heversham, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Kendal, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with that of St Thomas, Milnthorpe.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.[2] It stands on one of the oldest Christian sites in the historic county of Westmorland.[3]
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History
The oldest fabric in the present church dates from the 12th century. Additions and alterations were made during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.[2] Rebuilding took place following a fire in 1601.[2][3] A considerable considerable restoration was undertaken in 1868 by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, who also added the tower.[2] The restoration included work on the tower arch, the north nave arcade, the chancel arch, the arches of the north and south chapels, and on part of the south arcade.[2]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is constructed mainly in limestone rubble with sandstone dressings, the vestry and the east wall of the chancel being in sandstone. The roofs are covered in lead. The plan of the church consists of a three-bay nave with a clerestory, a two-bay chancel, north and south aisles with chapels at the east ends, a north vestry, a south porch, and a west tower. The tower is in three stages with buttresses, a pyramidal roof, and a southwest stair turret. The architectural style of the body of the church is Perpendicular. The south arcade is Norman. The tower is in Early English style.[2]
Interior
Most of the furnishings were designed by Paley and Austin, including the alabaster reredos. The screen in the north chapel dates from 1605. The south door is medieval, dating from about 1300. In the porch is a portion of an Anglo-Saxon cross dating from the late 8th century, carved with vine scrolls and beasts. Some of the stained glass in the south chapel is dated 1601. The glass in the east window was designed by William Warrington in 1844, and the glass in the south windows is mainly by Clayton and Bell. In the north chapel is a window dated 1914 by Shrigley and Hunt, and the west window of 1924 is by A. K. Nicholson. The church contains a number of monuments, the oldest dated 1626.[3] The three-manual organ was built in 1854, probably by Wilkinson. An earlier organ had been destroyed in the fire of 1601, and another organ is said to have been destroyed in the Civil War in about 1644. Improvements and repairs were undertaken on the present organ in 1887, 1925 and 1952, each time by Wilkinson. In 1979 Rushworth and Dreaper restored and extended it, and a complete overhaul was carried out in 1995 by David Wells at a cost of about £38,000.[4] The ring consists of six bells, all cast in 1870 by John Warner & Sons.[5]
External features
In the churchyard are a number of structures that have been designated as Grade II listed buildings. To the south of the church is a cross erected in 1920 as a memorial to those who died in the First World War. It is in the form of a Celtic cross, and was designed by J. F. Curwen.[6] The lych gate is dated 1894 and has sandstone piers with timber above, and a slate roof with a stone ridge.[7] Immediately to the south of the church is a table tomb to the Docker family, the earliest inscribed date being 1766.[8] To the south of this is another table tomb, this one being to the Crampton family, with an earliest date of 1760.[9] To the southeast of the church is a table tomb to the Dickinson family with an earliest date of 1763, although it was probably not erected until 1770.[10] To the south of the Dickinson tomb is a sandstone sundial dated 1690.[11]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- ^ St Peter, Heversham, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/heversham-st-peter/, retrieved 15 July 2011
- ^ a b c d e f "Church of St Peter, Heversham", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1086557, retrieved 15 July 2011
- ^ a b c Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 406–407, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
- ^ Westmorland (Cumbria), Heversham, St. Peter (N03596), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N03596, retrieved 15 July 2011
- ^ Heversham, S Peter, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Heversham&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=HEVERSHAM, retrieved 15 July 2011
- ^ "Memorial cross to the south of Church of St Peter, Heversham", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1086559, retrieved 15 July 2011
- ^ "Lych gate to south of Church of St Peter, Heversham", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1086559, retrieved 15 July 2011
- ^ "Docker table tomb immediately south of Church of St Peter, Heversham", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1336084, retrieved 15 July 2011
- ^ "Crampton table tomb to the south of Docker tomb", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1086560, retrieved 15 July 2011
- ^ "Dickinson table tomb south of south east corner of Church of St Peter, Heversham", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1137233, retrieved 15 July 2011
- ^ "Sundial south of Dickinson table tomb St Peter's churchyard, Heversham", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1336085, retrieved 15 July 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Cumbria
- Diocese of Carlisle
- Grade II* listed churches
- Grade II* listed buildings in Cumbria
- Norman architecture
- English Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture in Cumbria
- Paley and Austin buildings
- Religious buildings completed in 1868
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