Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209583
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209583
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
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 MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 40144 57043
Details
CARLISLE
NY4057SW CHURCH STREET, Stanwix 671-1/4/97 (South side) 13/11/72 Church of St Michael
GV II
Church of England church on a medieval site. 1841-3 by John Hodgson; 1843 repairs; 1893 alterations and 1907 extension. Red sandstone ashlar in irregularly-coursed small blocks, on chamfered plinth, with clasping buttresses carried up as pinnacles on tower and nave; stone-bracketed metal gutters. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finials. West 3-stage square tower/porch; 10-bay nave with transepts; apsidal chancel with north organ chamber (former vestry) and south vestry extension. Built in Commissioners style. Tower has west double plank doors in painted chamfered arch; tall lancets above on 2 levels, the upper ones with louvred vents; clock faces on 3 sides. Nave and transepts have tall lancet windows. Vestries have 2- and 3-light windows some with cusped heads, others rounded. Apse has arcade of small round-arched windows. INTERIOR: rib-vaulted plaster ceiling in nave and apse. Windows mostly of plain glass; some C20 stained glass. C19 painted board giving list of church benefactors and Hanoverian kings' arms 1714-1801. Late C19 hexagonal wooden pulpit and benches. 1893 granite-pillared sandstone font. Extensive white marble wall plaques some with carved portrait heads, draped figures etc, to Robert Ferguson d.1816 (see Marshall Hall, 1979), Eliza Graham d.1852 and John Chambers d.1850 are all by John Kirkbride 1786-1854; Esther Bonnel d.1822, Isabella Patrickson d.1854, Charles James Graham d.1847 and Wm Sowerby d.1855 are all by Thomas Nelson 1807-90; Charles Wm Thompson d.1843 by Christopher Woodall 1795-1859; Maria Woodrouffe Head d.1854 by Bedford of Oxford (this is probably J Bedford of Oxford Street, London); Capt Hugh Patrickson d.1821 by Paul Nixson 1768-1850. HISTORY: The foundation stone was laid on 1 June 1841 and it opened in 1843, but a fire on 21 December 1843 destroyed the wooden fitments and roof; for further details see Taylor (1982). Built on the site of a Roman Wall fort. (Marshall Hall: The Artists of Cumbria: 1979-: P.50; Taylor G: A Brief History of Stanwix: 1982-).
Listing NGR: NY4014457043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386682
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hall, M, The Artists of Cumbria, (1979), 50
Taylor, G, A Brief History of Stanwix, (1982)
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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