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| St Gregory, Vale of Lune | ||
| St Gregory's Church | ||
| Vale of Lune Church | ||
| civil parish:- | Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church (disused?) | |
| coordinates:- | SD63429219 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD6392 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD69 | |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St Gregory placename:- Vale of Lune Chapel |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST GREGORY (VALE OF LUNE CHAPEL) / / A 684 / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484492 / SD6342592194" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Chapel to Ingmire Hall Estate; now maintained by Redundant Churches Fund. Built 1850 as a Mission Chapel; altered and enlarged in 1907. Mixed random rubble with red sandstone quoins, graduated slate roof with wooden and glazed lantern; re-built gabled front and added porch of snecked rubble with yellow sandstone dressings and quoins. PLAN: small nave on north-south axis with north porch, south chancel built as crosswing (i.e as one vessel with short transepts)." "EXTERIOR: the porch, dated 1907, has a small rectangular window to the front, a lettered memorial plaque above this (commemorating Florence Ann Upton Cottrell Dormer, d.1907), a coped gable parapet with kneelers, and a doorway in its west side with a gablet containing the Ingmire Hall cross. The main gable has an ashlar bellcote clasped by coped gable parapets with kneelers. The west side wall has 3 rectangular 1-light windows with raised plain surrounds, and the gable of the wing at the south end has a gabled extension to the centre, a similar window either side and another above. The roof has a long low lantern (its eaves at the level of the ridge), with 5 segmental-headed lights and oversailing bracketed eaves to a swept hipped roof. (East side, abutting adjoining cottage, has no windows.)" "INTERIOR: panelled dado, chancel pews with carved ends and windows with wooden architraves and elaborate stained glass, mostly showing some Art Nouveau influence." |
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| notes:- |
The church was built in the 1860s, chapel and schoolroom, later combined. It was made
redundant in 1992. |
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| : : church leaflet |
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Built by the Upton Family, 1860-61. A baptist scripture reader, Thomas Foyers, was
sent from here to preach to the railway navvies building the Low Gill and Ingleton
branch railway. He was succeeded by an anglican clergman, Rev Perkins, who was sacked
by Mrs Upton-Cottrell-Dormer for being drunk. |
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| There was a school attached. |
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| Transferred from Ingmire Hall Estate and consecrated as an anglican chapel of ease
dedicated to St Gregory, 1918; refurbished about 1900. |
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| Barnes, Anthony: 2003: St Gregory's Church: Churches Conservation Trust (London) |
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