Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, IRELETH BROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292088
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, IRELETH BROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292088
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, IRELETH BROW
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 PETER, IRELETH BROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Askam and Ireleth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 22371 77456
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD27NW IRELETH BROW, Ireleth 708-1/1/218 (West side) Church of St Peter
II
Church. 1865. Patron The Duke of Buccleuch, on land given by John Todd (Hobbs). Rubble limestone with red sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 4-bay nave with north porch and with bell-tower at north-east corner; lower 2-bay chancel with south vestry. Gothic Revival style with Geometrical tracery. Chamfered plinth; diagonal buttresses at east and west ends; ashlar gable copings with crosses. Gabled porch has double chamfered arch and hoodmould with head-carved stops; similar doorway and benches within. Nave: cusped 2-light window with quatrefoils, hoodmoulds and relieving arches. Bell tower projects and has quoins and cusped doorway beneath quatrefoil; offsets beneath belfry with each side having gable with 3 quatrefoils in pointed arch with hoodmould; slated pyramidal spire with weathervane. West window of nave of 2 lights with colonnette and hexafoil over. Chancel: string course beneath cusped lancets. 3-light east window. Vestry has doorway to east and hipped roof. INTERIOR: contemporary pitch-pine fittings. Scissor-braced trusses to nave. Broad chancel arch with carved heads on the hoodmould stops; arch-braced roof. In prominent position overlooking the Duddon Estuary. (Trans Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc: Hobbs J L: Notes on Ireleth School and Chapel: Kendal: 1948-: 165).
Listing NGR: SD2237177456
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388487
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, (1948), 165
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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