Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, PROMENADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291841
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, PROMENADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291841
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, PROMENADE
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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, PROMENADE
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 18544 68590
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD16NE PROMENADE, Walney Island 708-1/5/276 (West side (off)) 06/05/76 Church of St Mary
GV II
Church. 1907-8; aisles and vestry added and west end completed 1928. By Austin and Paley. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; red tile, slate and lead roofs. 5-bay nave with lean-to aisles and south porch; 2-bay chancel with transepts, lean-to south chapel and north vestry. Gothic Revival style, Perpendicular details. Nave: aisles have square-headed, mullioned windows of 2 and 3 arched lights; single buttress; priest door near south transept has cavetto-moulded arch. Porch door (facing east), has moulded, pointed arch with hoodmould; ashlar parapet to hipped roof. Clerestorey: impost band links 4-light windows with arched lights and panel tracery under cavetto-moulded segmental arches. Broad buttresses flank 4-light west window; gable with quatrefoil, moulded copings and cross. Coped east gable has round, ashlar chimney. Chancel: slightly lower. Buttressed south transept has transomed 3-light window under cavetto-moulded arch; shallow gable with coped parapet. Chapel on right with mullioned 3-light window to south and pointed 3-light window to east under coped 1/2 gable. Broad buttresses flank east window of 5 lights with crenellated transom, cusped lights and segmental arch with hoodmould. Embattled ashlar parapet set forward of coped gable with slit and cross. Vestry: two 4-light mullioned windows to east; 2 small gables to north against buttressed transept; bellcote rises from transept parapet. INTERIOR: exposed stonework. Arcades have cavetto-moulded and chamfered arches which die into ogee-moulded piers. Paired trusses with King and Queen posts and collars. Crossing with cylindrical piers to west and cavetto/chamfered arches; 2 arches to south chapel, single arch to north transept. Arched chancel ceiling with bow-string truss. Octagonal font on colonettes; semi-octagonal oak pulpit on ashlar plinth. Seating of c1950 and 1958. Built adjacent to site of late C17 chapel demolished 1852; a new chapel erected 1853 but also demolished. With the building of Vickerstown the population of Walney Island rose from approx 500 in 1891 to approx 5,000 in 1903 thus requiring a more suitable place of worship. (A Short History of The Parish Church of Walney Island: St Mary The Virgin: Barrow in Furness: 2-9).
Listing NGR: SD1854468590
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388557
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
A Short History of The Parish Church of Walney Island St Mary the Virgin,
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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