Church of St Bridget

CHURCH OF ST BRIDGET, A 595

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1086589
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:
Church of St Bridget
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST BRIDGET, A 595
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1086589
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:
Church of St Bridget
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST BRIDGET, A 595

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST BRIDGET, A 595

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ponsonby
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
NY 04181 06037

Details

ST BRIDGET BECKERMET A595 NY 00 NW (north side) Calderbridge 3/65 Church of St Bridget GV II Church. 1842. By E Sharpe. Ashlar with slate roof and tile ridge. Nave, west tower, long transepts and short chancel with lean-to north vestry and south organ loft. Coped gables with kneelers, corbelled eaves. Lancet windows. 3-bay nave has lancets alternating with slender buttresses. Tower has diagonal buttresses; stopped triple lancets to north and west, lean-to porch with pointed entrance to south, 2 louvred lancet bell openings, coped corbelled parapet and pinnacles. Transepts have diagonal buttresses and stepped triple lancets, 2 to west returns. Chancel has stepped triple lancets and diagonal buttresses. Long lean-to bays have 2 stepped lancets each; jointed entrances. Interior has braced tie beam and king post trusses. Tower arch has gallery. Candle sconces to walls. East window by Holiday to thomas Irwin, the founder (died 1877). Chancel north and south Commandment boards.

Listing NGR: NY0418106037

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Legacy System number:
76365
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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