Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086857
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086857
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHAPEL LANE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cumbria
- District:
- South Lakeland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mansergh
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 60247 82704
Details
SD 68 SW MANSERGH CHAPEL LANE 16/139 (East side)
Church of St Peter
II
Church. 1880. By Paley and Austin. Dressed slate with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Nave, west tower, chancel and north transept and vestry. Quoins. Tower has large diagonal buttresses and south weathered stair turret; 2 dripcourses; cusped louvred bell openings with continuous label mould; saddleback roof has coped gables to east and west, and embattled parapets and spouts to north and south. 3-light west window with Perpendicular tracery has plaque below recording building of church, incorporating lead panel dated 1726. North side has basement entrance and ogee-headed light; similar light to south. 3-bay nave has straight-headed windows of 2 and 3 lights with cusping. South gabled porch of timber on stone base has moulded members, tracery panels and moulded segmental-arched opening. 2-bay chancel has sill course and gable cross. 2- and 1-light straight-headed windows with double cusped lights to south. 4-light traceried east window, the sill course continuing above small buttress to become label mould to vestry window of 4 lights with 3-centred heads. Transept of 2 gabled bays; straight-headed traceried windows of 2 lights; rainwater head to valley gutter; cross-axial stack to east bay. Vestry under swept catslide roof to east has entrance with 3-centred head. Interior: Waggon roofs with moulded members. Tower arch has continuous double chamfer; good stained glass to west window. Tapered octagonal font with roll mouldings. Wall memorial to Christopher (died 1845) and Catherine (died 1851) Wilson, richly ornamented Gothic form, with pinnacles and nodding ogee canopy. Chancel arch as tower arch, arches to transept from nave and chancel die into jambs. Chancel has ashlar facing below sill course and to whole of east wall. Timber pulpit on stone base has moulded panels. Timber lectern and stalls have blind and pierced tracery. Altar rails have turned balusters over middle rails. Panelled recess under south window has 2 seats; north recess has moulded sill and sunk ogee to head. Transept has valley on traceried arch braces. Good C19 stained glass to north-west window. Entrance to vestry has sunk ogee and tracery to lintel.
Listing NGR: SD6024782704
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75718
- 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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