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St Cuthbert, Seascale
St Cuthbert's Church
Seascale Church
locality:-   Seascale
civil parish:-   Seascale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY03780114
1Km square:-   NY0301
10Km square:-   NY00
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


photograph
BMV66.jpg (taken 13.10.2006)  

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.
image
NUR1NY00.jpg
"SEASCALE"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BRK82.jpg (taken 14.9.2009)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Cuthbert
item:-  ; ?datestone
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT / / GOSFORTH ROAD / SEASCALE / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76374 / NY0378801140"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. 1879 or 1890. By C J Ferguson. Snecked dressed stone with slate roof. Single vessel nave and chancel, south nave and organ loft, north vestry. Coped gables. West end has 2 traceried windows of 2 lights flanking short buttress, gabled bellcote, aisle has vesica window. South elevation has gabled porch with 2-light straight-headed traceried window; aisle has 3-light traceried straight-headed windows, rainwater heads dated 1889, scrolly brackets to downspouts; gabled organ loft with 2-light window and 2-light chancel window. East end has 4-light window with recticulated tracery. North vestry has east entrance, 4-light north window, west stack; 5-bay nave north elevation has 2-light windows, single-chamfered. Interior: arch braced collar trusses to nave roof; 5-bay arcade on round piers. Chancel arch of 2 orders; polished marble octagonal font, simple form with traceried cover. Chancel has 2-bay arcade to organ loft; richly carved pulpit, stalls and ambos, east panelling and brattished reredos, waggon roof with bosses; stained glass to chancel windows."

dedication
person:-    : St Cuthbert
place:-   Seascale / Carlisle Diocese

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