Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, WRAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335724
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, WRAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335724
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, WRAY
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 MARGARET, WRAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Claife
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 37225 00754
Details
CLAIFE WRAY NY 30 SE Church of St Margaret 3/16 Wray 25.3.70 GV II
Church. 1845. Possibly by H.P. Horner. Dressed stone with ashlar window dressings, slate roof. Nave, chancel with south tower and north vestry. 3-bay nave has 3-light west window with Decorated tracery and angle buttresses; gable cross. North and south facades have cusped lancets, between weathered buttresses. South porch is gabled, the gable with sundial dated 1856 and cross; clasping buttresses and plain-chamfered pointed entrance. Tower has deep weathered diagonal buttresses and corbelled-out embattled parapet. Canted stair turret to west on square base with clasping buttresses and small entrance. West 2-light window; 2nd stage has cusped lancets to south and east. Bell stage has 2 trefoil-headed louvred bell-openings to each side. Chancel has 3-light east window, angle buttresses and gable cross, as has nave east gable. Octagonal vestry has swept pyramidal roof and cross; small trefoil-headed lights to east and north-west. Interior has waggon roof with ashlaring, plain chancel arch and arches to vestry and organloft under tower. Stalls have tracery panels on north side. Tracery panels also to reredos. Good stained glass to east window. Canon Rawnsley, one of the founders of the National Trust, was an incumbent of this church.
Listing NGR: NY3722500754
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76761
- 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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