Church of St Cuthbert
CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275603
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275603
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
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 CUTHBERT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Plumbland
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 14153 39223
Details
NY 13 NW PLUMBLAND PARSONBY
12/83 Church of St Cuthbert
3.3.67 G.V. II Parish church. 1871 by J.A. Cory (in partnership with C.J. Ferguson), on medieval site and incorporating some medieval features. Hammer-dressed St Bees and calciferous sandstone with ashlar quoins, buttresses and string course. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finials. 4-bay nave with aisles, north organ chamber and 3-storey tower/porch. 2-bay chancel with north vestry. Nave has 3 gabled dormer clerestory windows and paired-lancet aisle windows. Tower has south doorway, and east side window which is C13 and reused from original church. Chancel has paired lancet windows and traceried east window. Interior: 4-bay north arcade and 3-bay south arcade with pointed arches of alternate red and yellow sandstone on round columns. Re-used zigzag Norman chancel arch. Unsigned late C19 and early C20 stained glass. 1684 wall plaque to Farish family and Reverend Edward Stanley, 1834. Chancel has late C19 stained glass and wall plaques to Ballantine-Dykes family. C19 piscina, the medieval one now in the vestry. Vestry doorway is C13 re-used.
Listing NGR: NY1415339223
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 411792
- 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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