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St Peter's Church, Kirkbampton 
St Peter's Church, Kirkbampton, from the northLocation in Cumbria
St Peter's Church, KirkbamptonCoordinates: 54°53′53″N 3°05′05″W / 54.8980°N 3.0848°W OS grid reference NY 305 564 Location Kirkbampton, Cumbria Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Peter, Kirkbampton Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade I Designated 8 November 1984 Architectural type Church Style Norman Groundbreaking 12th century Completed 1882 Specifications Materials Red sandstone and calciferous sandstone, roofs of green slate and sandstone slates Administration Parish Kirkbampton Deanery Carlisle Archdeaconry Carlisle Diocese Carlisle Province York St Peter's Church, Kirkbampton, is in the village of Kirkbampton, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Carlisle, the archdeaconry of Carlisle, and the diocese of Carlisle.[1] The church contains Norman architecture and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.[2]
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History
St Peter's dates from the 12th century. It was restored in 1870–71 and again in 1882.[2]
Architecture
The church is built in red sandstone and calciferous sandstone. The nave has a roof of green slate, while the chancel is roofed with sandstone slates. At the west end is an open double bellcote. The plan of the church consists of a three bay nave with a north porch, and a two-bay chancel with a north organ chamber and vestry. The Norman features are the north doorway, a blocked south doorway, the chancel arch, a lancet window in the south wall of the chancel and the head of a similar lancet that has been reset in the north wall of the organ chamber. The north doorway has a single order and a tympanum including a carved figure. The tympanum of the south doorway is decorated with stone of two different colours in three horizontal bands. The chancel arch has zigzag carving and capitals decorated with scallops.[2][3]
In the nave are 19th-century two-light windows with tracery, while the east window has three lights. The internal fittings and furnishings date from the 19th century, as do the wooden panelled ceiling in the nave and the barrel vaulted roof in the chancel. During one of the 19th-century restorations, carved and inscribed stones from the nearby Roman Hadrian's Wall were incorporated into the fabric of the south wall. The chancel contains a trefoil-headed piscina with a recess to its right.[2] The stained glass in the east window is by Morris & Co.; it dates from 1871, depicts Christ and eight angels with musical instruments but is badly preserved. Another window dating from 1885 is by E. R. Suffling of Edgware Road, London.[2][3] A further window contains glass by William Wailes.[4] The two-manual organ dates from about 1900 and was made by Albert E. Pease of the Phoenix Works, Stoke Newington.[5]
See also
- Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria
References
- ^ Kirkbampton, St Peter, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/kirkbampton-st-peter/, retrieved 16 April 2010
- ^ a b c d e "Church of St Peter, Kirkbampton", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1137108, retrieved 17 May 2011
- ^ a b Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002) [1967], Cumberland and Westmorland, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 147–148, ISBN 0-300-09590-2
- ^ Kirkbampton - St Peter's Church, Visit Cumbria, http://www.visitcumbria.com/car/chc6.htm, retrieved 16 April 2010
- ^ Cumberland, Kirkbampton - St Peter, British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D00907, retrieved 16 April 2010
Categories:- Church of England churches in Cumbria
- Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria
- Norman architecture
- Diocese of Carlisle
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