Church of St Cuthbert
CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336083
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1989
- 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:
- 1336083
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1989
- 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:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kentmere
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 45631 04107
Details
KENTMERE
SP 1083 CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
0/1083 Church
II
Parish Church. C16, substantially rebuilt (by subscription) in 1866; some
further alterations in the 1930s. Rough cast rubble; local graduated slate
roof. West tower nave and chancel (externally undivided), South porch. West
tower, saddleback with coping, finials (stone to East, metal to West); 2 stages,
2-light round-headed belfry openings to all sides, single lancet to West. Nave
and chancel treated in the simplest way with round-headed lancets (4 to nave, 3
to chancel) to North and South. South porch, gabled with depressed arched
doorway, and with one C18 and one early C19 gravestone built into South wall.
4-light East window under segmental head, plain mullions, uncusped. Interior:
uninterrupted space. C16 roof with moulded ties, ridge piece and purlins,
shallow pitch, boarded. C19 tower screen, simple stalls and benches. Flag
floor; the windows are deeply splayed. Only one monument of note: to Bernard
Gilpin (barn at Kentmere), 1901 by the Keswick School of Industrial Arts, bronze
with foliage frame: 'Arts and Crafts, almost Arts and Crafts, almost Art
Nouveau' (Pensner, Buildings of England - Cumberland and Westmorland, p25.
Listing NGR: NY4563104107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76493
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland, (1970), 25
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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