Church of St Kentigern
CHURCH OF ST KENTIGERN, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1234861
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Kentigern
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST KENTIGERN, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1234861
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Kentigern
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST KENTIGERN, KING 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 KENTIGERN, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aspatria
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 14710 41916
Details
NY 14 SW ASPATRIA KING STREET Aspatria
7/17 Church of St Kentigern
11.4.67 II* Parish church. 1846-8 by Travis & Mangnell, built on the site of and incorporating features from a Norman church. Dressed red sandstone,with angle buttresses and eaves modillions, on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finials. 6-bay nave with aisles; square 3-storey west tower with south porch and north vestry; 3-bay chancel has south memorial chapel. Tower has Norman style west doorway under 2-light windows on 2 levels and south clockface. Nave has 2-light aisle windows under quatrefoil clerestory windows. Chancel has 2-light windows and 3-light east window under carved oval panel inscribed to St Kentigern in Latin. Interior has Norman-style tower arch and original zigzag Norman arch from porch reused for vestry doorway. Nave has Early English style arcades on alternate round and polygonal columns. Set at west end of the nave is part of an Anglo-Danish cross shaft, along with other contemporary fragments including a carved hog-back coffin. C13 font has square bowl on 5 shafts. Royal Arms of Queen Anne dated 1711. 1910 aisle windows are a monument to Mary Lady Lawson. C19 numbered pews. Marble wall plaque to William Lomas by P. Nixson, Carlisle, 1823. Chancel has C19 piscina and sedilia. Musgrave memorial chapel has various C18 wall plaques to members of that family of Hayton Castle.
Listing NGR: NY1471041916
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410425
- 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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