Church of St Ninian
CHURCH OF ST NINIAN, NINEKIRKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1326778
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ninian
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NINIAN, NINEKIRKS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1326778
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ninian
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NINIAN, NINEKIRKS
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 NINIAN, NINEKIRKS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brougham
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 55936 29962
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/09/2014
NY 52 NE
10/14
BROUGHAM,
NINEKIRKS,
Church of St Ninian
I
Redundant parish church. 1660, on medieval site, for Lady Anne Clifford, porch
dated 1841. Red sandstone rubble walls with regularly-spaced buttresses, porch
of reeded red sandstone ashlar; graduated greenslate roof with C19 west
bellcote. 4-bay nave with single-bay chancel, under common roof. Porch has
Tudor-arched doorway with date panel above. Nave and chancel have small
round-arched windows in hollow double-chamfered surrounds under hoodmoulds.
Chancel has south round-arched priest's doorway under hoodmould. Windows in
east and west walls are similar but slightly taller than those in north and
south walls. Porch covers flattened segmental-headed C17 doorway. Interior has
much of its original 1660s woodwork; 9-bay roof with collar-beam trusses having
curved braces and short kingposts above the collar beams. Original box pews,
some on north side to their original height (with restoration) having turned
balusters. Chancel screen with turned balusters, but central doors missing.
7-sided pulpit with sounding board. Pedestal font on C20 base is dated 1662.
3 hatchments of arms. Poor box beside door is inscribed and dated 1663.
Chancel has plaster wreath enclosing initials AP (Anne Pembroke) 1660. Priest's
door screen is made up of carved C17 panels. C17 heavy turned-baluster altar
rail. Creed and Pater boards on east wall. Various C18 and C19 wall plaques to
the Brougham family, one set into floor. Reset floor slab to Cuthbert Bradley,
incumbent, 1624. 3 further slate slabs with brass figures and coats-of-arms are
C19, recording earlier members of the Brougham family. Church now maintained by
The Churches Conservation Trust. See RCHM, Westmorland, 1936, pp.54-6.
Listing NGR: NY5593829963
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 74217
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory Of Westmorland in Inventory Of Westmorland, (1936), 54-6
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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