Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, LONSDALE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217889
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, LONSDALE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217889
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, LONSDALE 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 PAUL, LONSDALE 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 40405 55867
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW LONSDALE STREET 671-1/12/199 (South side) Church of St Paul
GV II
Church of England Church, now Elim Church. 1869-70 by Habershon and Brock. Quarry-faced red sandstone on chamfered plinth, with stepped buttresses and string course. Graduated greenslate roofs with coped gables and cross finials. 5-bay nave with aisles and transepts; north-east tower base/porch and south vestry. West double doors in shallow-gabled porch, moulded arch with shafts, under large plate-traceried window and rose window in gable. Flanking similar small windows in aisles. Aisles to north and south have paired lancets with quatrefoil heads. Paired clerestory sunk cinquefoil windows in blind paired arches. Transepts have plate traceried windows. Tower base has door similar to the west doorway. Chancel has paired lancets and a plate tracery east window. Vestry has plank door in chamfered flattened arch. INTERIOR: pointed aisle arches of alternating red and yellow blocks of sandstone on round columns. Carved oak pulpit inscribed to memory of Samuel Waldegrave (Bishop of Carlisle). Some C19 and C20 stained glass in east window and nave. Open timber roof. C20 screen at west end. HISTORY: original plans dated 1869 are in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/1044. The Carlisle Journal (1870) records the laying of the foundation stone; consecrated 30 November 1870. Became Church of St Paul and St Mary in 1932; closed 1976 and declared redundant 1978 when all fittings were removed. (Carlisle Journal: 1 February 1870).
Listing NGR: NY4040555867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386790
- 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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