Wythburn Church
WYTHBURN CHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144532
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Wythburn Church
- Statutory Address:
- WYTHBURN CHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144532
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Wythburn Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYTHBURN CHURCH
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:
- WYTHBURN CHURCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 32438 13578
Details
NY 31 SW ST JOHNS CASTLERIGG & WYTHBURN WYTHBURN
21/106 Wythburn Church 3.3.67 II
Parish church. 1640 on the site of an earlier chapel, with restoration of 1740 and 1872 addition. Painted rendered walls on projecting plinth stones, with slate rubble additions, all under graduated greenslate roofs. 3-bay nave with west open bellcote and slightly higher apse of 1872 and south vestry. C20 studded plank door and C20 2-light casement windows, all within plain reveals. Triple lancet west window. Narrow round-headed windows in vestry and apse. Interior has open timber roof on C17 trusses. Stained glass in west window 1888; that in apse by Henry Holiday, 1892 and Hugh Arnold, 1906. Late C19 furnishing and fittings.
Listing NGR: NY3243813578
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72191
- 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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