Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1137170
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1137170
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, FRONT STREET
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 MARTIN, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brampton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 52832 61027
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/11/2014
NY 5261
15/18
BRAMPTON,
FRONT STREET (South side),
Church of St Martin
I
Church replacing late C17 hospital, converted to chapel 1789. 1877-8 by Philip
Webb (his only church), for George Howard (later 9th Earl of Carlisle) and other
contributors, with tower completed 1906 also by Webb. Dressed red sandstone
from Wetheral Quarry, graduated green slate roofs, lead spire. Square western
tower with porch: 4 bay nave of almost square plan, with single bay chancel
having 2 storey vestry to north and organ chamber to south. Tower has north
entrance and slated open porch: 2-light west window in large niche with 2 small
two-light baptistery windows below. Clock faces on all but south side. Recessed
bell-openings have louvred vents. Gabled roof with shaped parapet. Short
pointed spire has small gabled extensions to north and south. Nave has three
2-light north aisle windows with battlemented parapet and rising merlons with
sloping tops. South aisle has round west window with tracery, small rectangular
windows with alternating gabled stretches and 3 gabled clerestory dormers.
Projecting organ chamber to south wall of chancel has 3 light Perpendicular
window, with flanking buttresses and gables to west and east.
Interior has west narthex, acting as porch and baptistery, with access to nave
through 2 arches, above which is a clear 4-light window, lit through room above
by west window of tower. Nave has 4 pointed arches on octagonal columns with
moulded capitals. North aisle has painted wooden transverse tunnel vaulting,
whilst south aisle has sloping painted wooden roof broken by clerestory
dormers. Flat painted boarding to nave/chancel roof with fan coving above arch
columns. North east war memorial chapel, with upper floor vestry, has altar
panel by Byam Shaw and altar carpet to Morris design. Stained glass by Morris &
Co, mostly to Burne-Jones designs. East window of 15 subjects as memorial to
Charles Howard, 1880, has angels, saints, the Good Shepherd and pelican, mostly
to original designs, whilst side windows are re-used designs. Free standing
bust and wall plaque to Rev Thomas Ramshay, d.1840. C13 baluster font from
Upper Denton Church. 3 grave slabs, medieval and early C18 from Brampton Old
Church.
Listing NGR: NY5283061026
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 21 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77811
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 21 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/4294
War Memorials Online, accessed 21 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/176873
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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