Church of St Hilda
CHURCH OF ST HILDA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158087
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Hilda
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HILDA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158087
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Hilda
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HILDA
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 HILDA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westward
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 27319 44891
Details
NY 24 SE WESTWARD Westward
7/216 Church of St Hilda
II
Parish Church. 1785-6 on a C16 site. Coursed hammer-dressed red sandstone with flush quoins on projecting plinth, probably that of the original church. Graduated greenslate roof. 3-bay preaching box with west porch under square bellcote/tower with pyramidal spire. C19 tracery-panelled double door in recessed pointed arch, continuing up to form bellcote with louvred vents. 3-light windows with level pointed heads throughout. Interior has late C19 furnishings and fittings, including a panelled ceiling and a screen to provide a western vestibule, both enriched with bubble-leaf ornament. Stained glass in east and south window, 1890. West wall has brass plaque to Richard Barwis of Islekirk Hall, 1648. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, lxxxiii, ppl5l-6.
Listing NGR: NY2731944891
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72520
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 33, (), 151-156
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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