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Holy Trinity Church, Seathwaite 
Holy Trinity Church, Seathwaite, from the southLocation in Cumbria
Holy Trinity Church, SeathwaiteCoordinates: 54°21′18″N 3°11′16″W / 54.3549°N 3.1878°W OS grid reference SD 229 961 Location Seathwaite, Cumbria Country England Denomination Anglican Website Holy Trinity, Seathwaite Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 25 March 1970 Architect(s) Paley and Austin Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Completed 1874 Specifications Materials Slate Administration Parish Broughton and Duddon Deanery Furness Archdeaconry Westmoreland and Furness Diocese Carlisle Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Revd Tony Adams Holy Trinity Church, Seathwaite, is in the village of Seathwaite, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmoreland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of four other local parishes.[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 1874 to a design by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin.[3] Holy Trinity was built on the site of an earlier church. For 67 years the curate of that church had been Rev Robert Walker, who was made famous by the poet William Wordsworth. Wordsworth called him "Wonderful Walker", and made reference to him in his Duddon Sonnets and in the poem The Excursion.[2][4]
Architecture
Exterior
Holy Trinity is constructed in coursed slate rubble and has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a nave and chancel in one range, with an organ loft and vestry to the north, and a south porch. At the west end is a gabled bellcote. All the windows are lancets. There are wide buttresses externally between the nave and the chancel. A stone is attached to the porch incorporating a sundial; this had formerly been the shearing stool of Rev Walker.[2]
Interior
Inside the church is a stoup with a trefoil arcade.[4] Painted on the wall of the chancel are the Ten Commandments. Also in the church is a brass. This had formerly been on a gravestone; it is to the memory of Rev Walker, who died in 1802, and his wife, Anne, who had died two years previously.[2] The stained glass, dating from 1897, is by Kempe.[4] The two-manual organ was built in 1902 by Young.[5]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- ^ Seathwaite: Holy Trinity, Seathwaite, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/seathwaite-holy-trinity/, retrieved 11 June 2011
- ^ a b c d "Church of Holy Trinity, Seathwaite", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1158413, retrieved 11 June 2011
- ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 87, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
- ^ a b c Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 609, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
- ^ Lancashire (Cumbria), Seathwaite Nr. Furness, Holy Trinity (D00935), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D00935, retrieved 11 June 2011
External links
- (Note: Both websites show photographs of the church.)
Categories:- Religious buildings completed in 1874
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- 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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