CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1327246
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Date:: 2002-09-13
Reference:: IOE01/08787/14
Rights:: © Mr Gordon Furness. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1327246
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sebergham
National Grid Reference:: NY3640941849

Details

NY 34 SE SEBERGHAM Church town

9/163 Church of St Mary

11.4.67 II*

Parish church. Medieval with repairs of 1774 and 1785, tower 1825 and 1905 restoration. Mixed large and small blocks of red sandstone. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables. Thin 3-storey west tower/porch; 3-bay nave and lower single-bay chancel. Side entrance in tower has alternate-block surround and voussoirs; external stone steps to first floor west doorway, with louvred vents above, under battlemented parapet with pinnacles. Nave has blocked segmental-arched north door. 2-light Tudor window and original lancet window. South wall has been heavily restored with 2- and 3-light 1905 windows. Chancel has 4 original lancet windows. 3-light east window of 1905. Interior of nave: open timber ceiling of 1905 and 3-light oriel window over west door of same date. Wall plaques to various local families, one to Thomas Watson 1823 by Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson with sculptured panel after Fuseli's Three Witches (illustrated by Pevsner, Buildings of England, Cumberland and Westmorland volume, plate 57). Chancel has flat Tudor-style timber ceiling. Lancet windows have rear arches. Wall plaque with coats-of-arms to Thomas Denton, 1616.

Listing NGR: NY3640941849

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Legacy System number:: 72471
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland, (1967)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.