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St George, Barrow-in-Furness
St George's Church
Barrow-in-Furness Church
Street:-   St George's Square
locality:-   Barrow-in-Furness
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD20286875
1Km square:-   SD2068
10Km square:-   SD26
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

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CDG51.jpg (taken 7.6.2015)  
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CDG07.jpg (taken 7.6.2015)  
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.
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"BARROW-IN-FURNESS / ST. GEORGE"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page
 stained glass
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St George
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST GEORGE / / ST GEORGES SQUARE / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388576 / SD2028168756"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. 1859-61. By EG Paley, patrons the Duke of Buccleuch and Duke of Devonshire; north aisle of 1867; chapel added 1883, patron Sir James Ramsden. Dry-jointed slate with red ashlar sandstone quoins and dressings; graduated slate roofs. Orientated north-east/south-west; ritual orientation used here. 5-bay nave with separately-roofed aisles, south porch, west porch and 3-stage tower at west end of south aisle; 2-bay chancel with south chapel, north organ chamber and vestry. Gothic Revival style with Geometrical tracery. Plinth; offset buttresses between bays. South aisle: porch to bay 2 has clasping buttresses and pointed arch with hoodmould beneath steep gable with copings and cross. Pointed-arched windows of 3 and 2 lights with hoodmoulds; string course beneath ashlar parapet with water spouts and roll-moulded copings. Tower: offsets below each stage; diagonal buttresses with offsets and gablets; octagonal stair turret at south-east corner. Cusped 2-light window with hoodmould to west side; small 2-light window above; paired 2-light belfry openings with louvres and with slit beneath triangular hoodmould. Cornice with ball-flowers supports oversailing, embattled parapet with roll-moulded merlons. Stair turret has square base with trefoil-headed door to west; offsets, string courses and slit windows; blind cusped lancets and cornice beneath embattled parapet. West porch: door in south side with colonnettes, 2-centred arch and hoodmould. Inner door with ovolo-moulded, pointed arch and hoodmould on angels. West gables of nave and north aisle have offset buttresses and 4-light windows with differing tracery; hoodmoulds, ashlar gable copings. North aisle: pilaster buttresses divide four 2-light windows and one of 3 lights. Chancel: 5-light east window beneath gable with ashlar copings and cross; lower south-aisle gable with 3-light window. South chapel: under same roofline as aisle; octagonal turret at the junction has blind tracery, gablets and crocketed spire with finial; 2-light windows and parapet with quatrefoils. Apsidal north vestry has link to aisle with 3-light mullioned windows, another link to former vicarage (now St George's House, Salthouse Road (qv)); vestry has corbelled stack with 2 round flues."
"INTERIOR: north aisle now forms church hall. Arcades have alternate octagonal piers and round piers with foliage-carved capitals; double-chamfered arches and hoodmoulds with head-carved stops. Nave roof: arched-braced, collared trusses with cusped wind-braces. South aisle has scissor-braced common rafters. Chancel and south chapel (The Ramsden Chapel) are lined in red ashlar sandstone. Chancel arch has trefoiled responds and carved capitals to cavetto/ovolo moulded arch; north arch to the organ chamber with recess and niche to east; 2 arches on foiled pier to the chapel, sedilia to east; carved scissor-braced trusses. Chapel has arcading around east end with colonnettes, war memorials in 3 of the niches and hoodmould with head-carved stops; wooden, vaulted ceiling. C19 pews. Stained glass to east and west windows; 2 windows to south aisle by Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster. Built as the parish church for the new town of Barrow."

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CDG18.jpg  Mothers Union banner.
(taken 7.6.2015)  
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CDG19.jpg  Banner.
(taken 7.6.2015)  
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CDG21.jpg  Organ.
(taken 7.6.2015)  
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CDG22.jpg  Organ, speakers?
(taken 7.6.2015)  
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CDG20.jpg  Alternative organ! playing pop music.
(taken 7.6.2015)  
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CDG23.jpg  War memorial.
(taken 7.6.2015)  
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CDG24.jpg  List of furnishings in War Memorial Chapel.
(taken 7.6.2015)  
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BOG45.jpg (taken 10.10.2007)  
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BOG46.jpg (taken 10.10.2007)  

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CDG25.jpg  Old photo.
(taken 7.6.2015)  
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CDG26.jpg  Print, printed at bottom LEFT, RIGHT:-
"J. R. Jobbins / E. G. Paley Archt." (taken 7.6.2015)  
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CDG27.jpg  Plan of seating.
(taken 7.6.2015)  
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
date:-   1859
 to 1861
New church in geometrical and decorated style
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
date:-   1883
Additional building.
dedication
person:-    : St George
place:-   Barrow in Furness / Carlisle Diocese
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