Church of St Patrick

CHURCH OF ST PATRICK, A65, LA7 7NR

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312122
Date first listed:
20-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Church of St Patrick
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PATRICK, A65, LA7 7NR
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312122
Date first listed:
20-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Church of St Patrick
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST PATRICK, A65, LA7 7NR

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PATRICK, A65, LA7 7NR

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Preston Patrick
National Grid Reference:
SD 53704 83520

Details

SD 58 SW,
4/57

PRESTON PATRICK A65 (off East side),
Crooklands,
Church of St Patrick

II

Formerly known as Church of St Gregory. Parish Church. 1852 by Sharpe and
Paley on site of earlier church; chancel rebuilt 1892. Incorporates C15 window
in tower and niches in chancel from original church. Squared limestone blocks
with roughly-cut limestone dressings to nave, sandstone dressings to chancel;
graduated slate roof with stone ridge and copings. Perpendicular style. West
Tower, nave with North aisle, chancel and vestry. Chamfered plinth and cornice;
square 4-stage tower with diagonal buttresses, string to each stage, bell
openings to all sides of 4th stage, battlemented parapets and octagonal stair
turret, rising to higher level at south-west corner, with slit windows and
pointed-arched head to door. Gabled South porch with slate roof and stone
copings; depressed arch to doorway with hoodmould and heavy roughly-dressed
stone labels.

INTERIOR: Nave has 4-bay A-frame roof with curved braces, chancel
has one bay barrel-vaulted roof. Three 3-light windows to North aisle, three 2-light
windows to South of nave and one 2-light window in chancel, 4-light West window
and 4-light East window with stained glass representing Saints; variety of other
late C19 and early C20 glass including central window in South side of nave by
Heaton Butler and Bayne of London. Pulpit commemorates death of William Henry
Wakefield of Sedgwick House in 1889. Prominent landscape feature dominating
surrounding area.


Listing NGR: SD5370483520

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
76611
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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