Church of Holy Ghost
CHURCH OF HOLY GHOST, A683
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086865
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Ghost
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY GHOST, A683
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086865
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Ghost
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY GHOST, A683
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 HOLY GHOST, A683
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middleton
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 62307 86191
Details
SD 68 NW MIDDLETON A683 (West side)
13/153 Church of Holy Ghost
II
Church. 1878-9. By C.J. Ferguson. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof with tile crest. Single vessel nave and chancel with small north vestry. Coped gables with crosses, coping and weathered buttresses to wall between nave and chancel, gabled bellcote has gabled buttresses and cinquefoil bell opening. South facade has 4 straight-headed windows with tracery and label moulds, that to eastern bay has 2 cusped panels beneath; 3-light window to 2nd bay of nave has hoodmould and cusped lights. West end has 2-light window with segmental-pointed head and hood. North facade has small gabled vestry with 2-light cross-mullioned window with cusped upper lights; lean-to porch to west, the entrance with decorative sinking to lintel; adjoining buttress has light to porch. Nave has 3-light window to eastern bay, as above, and 2 straight-headed windows, as above to 2nd bay. Western bay has pointed entrance with continuous moulding. East end has 3-light window, the central light large and round-headed, probably designed to fit existing stained glass window. Interior: Single-rafter roof has scissor and collar braces. Octagonal font with quatrefoil panels and lettering, enriched flat cover. Western screen with segmental central opening. Cusped lights and brattishing. Double-chamfered chancel arch, the inner chamfer on corbels. Enriched timber pulpit and lectern in C16 style. Tracery fronts to stalls. South seat recess between window. Reredos in C16 style. North vestry door and wall memorial to Anne Moore (died 1772), fluted pilasters, frieze and broken pediment and apron. Late C19 stained glass, east window has 3 lights dated 1862, the tracery lights later.
Listing NGR: SD6230786191
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75733
- 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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