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| St Luke, Torver | ||
| St Luke's Church | ||
| Torver Church | ||
| locality:- | Torver | |
| civil parish:- | Torver (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church | |
| coordinates:- | SD28479428 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2894 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD29 | |
| references:- | : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5 |
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 BJV52.jpg (taken 16.9.2005)  CHD47.jpg (taken 3.4.2018) |
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| evidence:- | old painting:- Penn 1730s |
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| source data:- |  click to enlargePEN4Msc2.jpg item:- Whitworth Art Gallery : D194.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Nurse 1918 |
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| 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. NUR1SD29.jpg "TORVER" item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St Luke |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST LUKE / / A 593 / TORVER / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76903 / SD2847994286" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Church. 1884. By Paley and Austin. Dressed slate with red sandstone dressings, slate roofs. Nave, chancel and tower between, north lean-to vestry. Coped gables. Round-headed windows have sandstone dressings. 3-bay nave has south gabled porch, entrance with shafts and arch with zig-zag and roll moulding; north side of nave has 2 windows. West end has paired windows under continuous hoodmould on sill band. Tower has deep weathered buttresses to north and south, and tall windows with weathering above; louvred bell openings and coped cornice; squat pyramidal roof and fish to weather-vane. Chancel has 3 east windows with hollow-chamfered reveals, the central one wider, and continuous hoodmould. Vestry to west bay of chancel and tower has entrance with cambered lintel. Interior: arch-braced collar trusses, one with tie beam. Tower has round double-stepped arches, the inner steps corbelled, plain coffered ceiling. North organ loft. Plain octagonal font of uncertain date on later base." |
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 CHD56.jpg Organ, by Alexendra Young and Sons, Manchester, 1899. (taken 3.4.2018)  CHD57.jpg Organ, by Alexendra Young and Sons, Manchester, 1899. (taken 3.4.2018)  CHD58.jpg Organ builder:- "ALEX. YOUNG & SONS, / ORGANBUILDERS, / MANCHESTER. / 1899." (taken 3.4.2018)  CHD55.jpg War memorial plaque, World War I, 1914-18. (taken 3.4.2018)  CHD48.jpg Roof timbers. (taken 3.4.2018)  BTK51.jpg (taken 25.8.2010) |
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| hearsay:- |
Designed by Paley and Austin. |
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| Paley and Austin series | ||
| person:- | architect : Paley, Edward G |
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| person:- | architect : Austin, Hubert J |
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| date:- | 1884 |
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| New church in norman style. |
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| dedication | ||
| person:- | : St Luke |
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| place:- | Torver / Carlisle Diocese | |
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