Church of St George
Church of St George, St Georges Square
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201077
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St George, St Georges Square
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201077
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St George, St Georges Square
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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 George, St Georges Square
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 20281 68756
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 28 February 2024 to update the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SD2068NW
708-1/14/138
BARROW IN FURNESS
ST GEORGE'S SQUARE (North side)
Church of St George
06/05/76
GV
II
Church. 1859-61. By EG Paley, patrons the Duke of Buccleuch and Duke of Devonshire; north aisle of 1867; chapel added 1883, patron Sir James Ramsden. Dry-jointed slate with red ashlar sandstone quoins and dressings; graduated slate roofs. Orientated north-east/south-west; ritual orientation used here. Five-bay nave with separately-roofed aisles, south porch, west porch and three-stage tower at west end of south aisle; two-bay chancel with south chapel, north organ chamber and vestry. Gothic Revival style with Geometrical tracery. Plinth; offset buttresses between bays. South aisle: porch to bay two has clasping buttresses and pointed arch with hoodmould beneath steep gable with copings and cross. Pointed-arched windows of three and two lights with hoodmoulds; string course beneath ashlar parapet with water spouts and roll-moulded copings.
Tower: offsets below each stage; diagonal buttresses with offsets and gablets; octagonal stair turret at south-east corner. Cusped two-light window with hoodmould to west side; small two-light window above; paired two-light belfry openings with louvres and with slit beneath triangular hoodmould. Cornice with ball-flowers supports oversailing, embattled parapet with roll-moulded merlons. Stair turret has square base with trefoil-headed door to west; offsets, string courses and slit windows; blind cusped lancets and cornice beneath embattled parapet.
West porch: door in south side with colonnettes, two-centred arch and hoodmould. Inner door with ovolo-moulded, pointed arch and hoodmould on angels. West gables of nave and north aisle have offset buttresses and four-light windows with differing tracery; hoodmoulds, ashlar gable copings.
North aisle: pilaster buttresses divide four two-light windows and one of three lights.
Chancel: five-light east window beneath gable with ashlar copings and cross; lower south-aisle gable with three-light window.
South chapel: under same roofline as aisle; octagonal turret at the junction has blind tracery, gablets and crocketed spire with finial; two-light windows and parapet with quatrefoils. Apsidal north (once used as the vestry, now located at west end of south aisle) has link to aisle with three-light mullioned windows, another link to former vicarage (now St George's House, Salthouse Road (qv)); former vestry has corbelled stack with two round flues.
INTERIOR: north aisle now forms church hall. Arcades have alternate octagonal piers and round piers with foliage-carved capitals; double-chamfered arches and hoodmoulds with head-carved stops. Nave roof: arched-braced, collared trusses with cusped wind-braces. South aisle has scissor-braced common rafters. Chancel and south chapel (The Ramsden Chapel) are lined in red ashlar sandstone. Chancel arch has trefoiled responds and carved capitals to cavetto/ovolo moulded arch; north arch to the organ chamber with recess and niche to east; two arches on foiled pier to the chapel, sedilia to east; carved scissor-braced trusses. Chapel has arcading around east end with colonnettes, war memorials in three of the niches and hoodmould with head-carved stops; wooden, vaulted ceiling. C19 pews. Stained glass to east and west windows; two windows to south aisle by Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster. Double gates to former main entrance. Cast iron gas lamp standard near south porch. Built as the parish church for the new town of Barrow.
Listing NGR: SD2028168756
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388576
- 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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