Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Christ Church, Silloth

Christ Church, Silloth

Christ Church

Silloth Church

Street:-

Criffel Street

locality:-

Silloth

civil parish:-

Silloth-on-Solway (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY11015370

1Km square:-

NY1153

10Km square:-

NY15

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BRB01.jpg (taken 10.7.2009)
photograph

BNV82.jpg (taken 20.6.2007)

evidence:-

old print:- Wood 1880s
placename:- Christ Church

source data:-

Print, lithograph Christ Church, Silloth, published by J Wood and Co, Silloth, Cumberland, 1880s?

WD0112.jpg
Included in a Souvenir Album of Silloth.
printed at upper left:- "CHRIST CHURCH SILLOTH."
item:- JandMN : 454.12
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Nurse 1918

source data:-

Map, The Diocese of Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Rev Euston J Nurse, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, 11 English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 2nd edn 1939.

NUR1NY05.jpg
"CHRIST CHURCH SILLOTH"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

stained glass

kneeler

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Christ Church

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHRIST CHURCH / / CRIFFEL STREET / SILLOTH ON SOLWAY / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71991 / NY1103853700"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church. 1870-1 by Cory &Ferguson. Large split grey granite boulders (brought as ballast in ships from Ireland) on chamfered plinth; string courses, quoins and dressings of limestone. Welsh slate roof with bands of greenslate; decorative ridge tiles, coped gables and cross finials. North-east, south-west alignment. 3-storey west tower/porch with broach spire, 5-bay nave and aisles with transepts, semicircular apse. Tower has pointed entrance arch of 3 orders on granite shaft columns. First floor quatrefoil openings; 2-light pointed openings above, that to west filled by clockface. Spire with small lucarnes. Nave has 2-light aisle windows, clerestory rose windows in pointed recesses. Tall lancet apse windows. Interior: all walls with decorative brickwork in red and yellow bands. 5-bay aisles of stone columns with uncarved capitals, pointed brick arches. Late C19 furnishings and fittings. Late C19 stained glass in ritual west and east windows."

ring of bells

incumbents:-

Hind, Charles	1872 -
Horne, William	1878 -
Herbert, Septimus	1881 -
Dixon, Frederic A	1890 -
Aylwin, Herbert	1893 -
Sowter, James	1900 -
Humble, R A	1902 -