CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST WILFRED

CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST WILFRED, A69

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1111897
Date first listed:: 01-Apr-1957
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST WILFRED
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST WILFRED, A69

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1111897
Date first listed:: 01-Apr-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST WILFRED
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST WILFRED, A69

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST WILFRED, A69

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District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wetheral
National Grid Reference:: NY 47521 56817

Details

WETHERAL A69, WARWICK BRIDGE NY 45 NE (South Side)

6/172 Church of St Mary and St Wilfred 1. 4.57. (Formerly listed as Church of St Mary).

II*

Roman Catholic Church. 1841 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin for Henry Howard of Corby Castle. Red sandstone snecked ashlar walls, slate roof with coped gables. Nave of 4 bays, single bay chancel, gabled south porch, added sacristy to south wall of chancel. Nave has buttressed walls and angles, with alternating large and small lancets, larger windows of Y-shaped tracery and cusped heads. West entrance and porch have pointed entrance arches with moulded surrounds and hood moulds ending in mitred heads. West gable has 3 lancets with trefoil heads and hood moulds, surmounted by hexagonal bellcote. Interior has open timber roof, all painted and decorated with gold. Stone font beside south entrance, cut-stone pulpit on south wall of nave, beside chancel arch, has entrance from sacristy and decorated with figurative painted panels. Corresponding niche on north wall has figure of the Virgin. Text painted around dado panels, with decorative motifs painted on splays of the smaller lancets. Stained glass of 1860, 65 and 67, by Harrington of London, presented by Philip Howard. Chancel has screen of carved and painted wood with central crucifix, flanked by Virgin Mary and St Wilfred. Decorative painted ribbed plank ceiling and painted walls. Stepped altar, heavily gilded with metal work to Pugin's designs, flanked by 2 small coronas by Pugin. Sedilia and piscina in south wall; Easter-Sepulchre-like recess to north wall with tomb of Henry Howard (q.v.), died 1842. Retains all of original decorations much to Pugin's designs. See, Pheobe Stanton, Pugin, p.94-97.

Listing NGR: NY4752156817

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Legacy System number:: 77754
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Stanton, P, Pugin, (1971), 94-97

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