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St John, Skirwith
St John's Church
Skirwith Church
locality:-   Skirwith
civil parish:-   Culgaith (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY61763256
1Km square:-   NY6132
10Km square:-   NY63
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

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BMF33.jpg (taken 2.6.2006)  
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CGM33.jpg (taken 8.9.2017)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 51 13) 
placename:-  St John's Church
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"St John's Church (Perpl. Curacy) / Grave Yard"
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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NUR1NY63.jpg
"SKIRWITH"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page
 stained glass
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St John
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST JOHN / / SKIRWITH / CULGAITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 351323 / NY6176532565"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church. 1856, by Frederick John and Horace Francis, for the Reverend Christopher Parker; repairs to east end in progress at time of inspection (May 1992). Coursed squared red sandstone, graduated green slate roofs with red ridge tiles. Decorated style. Small 4-bay nave with south-west tower, 3-bay south aisle and 20-bay chancel with 1-bay north vestry. The 3 stage tower embraced by the nave and aisle and projecting to the west, has a chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses dying at the 3rd stage, with 3 offsets, an embattled parapet with corner gargoyles and a short octagonal spire; a moulded 2-centred arched west doorway with set-in shafts, hoodmould with figured stops, and board door with elaborate foliated strap hinges; a lancet to the 2nd stage; 2-light louvred belfry windows with reticulated tracery, moulded surrounds and hoodmoulds with figured stops; and two tiers of lucarnes to the spire. The nave, with 2 buttresses, has 3, 2-light windows and a 1-light window at the west end, and a large 3-light west window, all these windows 2- centred arched and moulded in 2 orders, with differing forms of reticulated tracery and hoodmoulds with differing figured stops. The south aisle, of full height with its own pitched roof, has a diagonal buttress, and 3 windows like those of the nave and likewise differing in detail. The chancel, also with diagonal buttresses, has 2-centred arched priest door and 2 windows on the south side, a gabled window and one window on the north side, all windows of 2 cinquefoil lights with tracery above, and a 3-light east window with multifoil tracery. All the roofs have gable copings with kneelers and apex crosses."
"INTERIOR: 3 bay aisle arcade of short octagonal columns and responds with moulded caps, moulded 2 centred arches with hoodmoulds springing from carved moulded foliated stops (all differing); chancel arch in similar style; plastered walls; windows with moulded stone reveals and hoodmoulds with differing figured stops, and stained glass by Wailes of Newcastle; arched- braced hammer-beam roofs to nave and aisle, wagon-roof to chancel; nave has elaborate carved wooden pulpit on stone and marble base, carved octagonal font with elaborate steeply swept wooden cover, and pews with trefoil tracery panels, chancel has choir stalls with poppy-head finials, and carved wooden altar and reredos flanked by outer reredos under paired crocketed canopies. Imported fittings: 2-bay parclose screen forming Lady Chapel in south aisle; medieval reredos in this chapel; large and elaborately naturalistic metal chandelier in nave."
"HISTORY: Messrs. Francis were successful church and commercial architects of London and Home Counties in mid and late C19. Interior design and fittings reflect ecclesiological and liturgical enthusiasm of donor."
 memorials
 ring of bells

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CGM57.jpg (taken 8.9.2017)  

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CGM49.jpg  Organ, made by the Positive Organ Co, London.
(taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM51.jpg  Organ, made by the Positive Organ Co, London.
(taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM50.jpg  Organ maker:-
"(CASSON'S PATENT) / POSITIVE ORGAN CO. LTD. / LONDON / Op.56" (taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM52.jpg  Organ, made by the Positive Organ Co, London.
(taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM65.jpg  Pulpit.
(taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM66.jpg  inscription, chancel.
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CGM67.jpg  inscription, chancel.
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CGM68.jpg  Altar.
"" (taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM69.jpg  Candelabrum.
(taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM70.jpg  Lamp.
(taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM63.jpg  Lady Chapel.
(taken 8.9.2017)  
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BMF32.jpg (taken 2.6.2006)  
MN photo:-  
 There is a collection of oak domestic furniture, mostly in the Lady Chapel.

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CGM53.jpg  Desk box.
"HC 1728" (taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM54.jpg  Table.
"E P" (taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM55.jpg  Press cupboard.
(taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM56.jpg  Press cupboard.
(taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM58.jpg  Settle.
(taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM59.jpg  Cupboard, table
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CGM60.jpg  Panelling.
"TNE 1675" (taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM64.jpg  Panelling.
"TNE 1675" (taken 8.9.2017)  

Chinnery, Victor: 1979: Oak Furniture, the British Tradition: Antique Collectors' Club (London)
dedication
person:-    : St John the Evangelist
place:-   Skirwith / Carlisle Diocese
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