Church of St Mary and St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086711
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086711
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL, SOUTH STREET
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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 MARY AND ST MICHAEL, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cumbria
- District:
- Copeland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Egremont
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 01124 10568
Details
NY 01 SW (INSET) EGREMONT SOUTH STREET (East side) Egremont
9/43 Church of St Mary 9.3.67 & St Michael G.V. II
Parish Church. 1881 by T. Lewis Banks (London and Whitehaven) replacing late C12 church, parts of which were incorporated. Western baptistry gift of local Freemasons 1883. Tower raised in 1901 by Oliver & Dodgshun (Carlisle). Hammer-dressed, snecked, sandstone blocks with quoins; moulded plinth, strings, eaves cornice, and pilaster buttresses. Graduated slate roofs with outshuts to either side of chancel; stone copings, kneelers, and apex crosses. Embattled tower to north-west corner, nave with aisles, short transept, and chancel. Early English style. 4-stage tower has panelled door to ground floor; pointed arch-head of 4 orders with foliate capitals to jamb-shafts. Similar 2-order door in gabled porch on south side. Lancet windows, some in chancel and north nave aisle re-used late C12; corbels of similar date to north aisle. Interior: Pointed arches throughout; 5-bay nave arcade carried on columns with foliate capitals. Nave roof carried on corbels. Transept arms separated from nave by 2-bay arcade carried on tall quatrefoil pier. 2-seater sedilia, pillar piscina, and shelf, under wall arcade in chancel. Late C19 fittings. Pulpit of Caen stone with alabaster figures, supported on marble shafts. Kneeling angel supports scalloped font bowl. Drawings and description of earlier church by T. Lewis Banks in C.W.A.A. Transactions, Old Series, Vol. 6, pp163-175.
Listing NGR: NY0112410568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76139
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 6, (), 163 175
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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