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| St Peter, Ireleth | ||
| St Peter's Church | ||
| Ireleth Church | ||
| locality:- | Ireleth | |
| civil parish:- | Askam and Ireleth (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church | |
| coordinates:- | SD22377746 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2277 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD27 | |
| references:- | : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5 |
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 BMJ93.jpg (taken 11.7.2006)  BMJ94.jpg (taken 11.7.2006) |
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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. NUR1SD27.jpg "IRELETH WITH ASKHAM" Two churches shown, but in the errata:- "Ireleth with Askham - one Church only." item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St Peter |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST PETER / / IRELETH BROW / ASKAM AND IRELETH / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388487 / SD2237177456" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Church. 1865. Patron The Duke of Buccleuch, on land given by John Todd (Hobbs). Rubble limestone with red sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 4-bay nave with north porch and with bell-tower at north-east corner; lower 2-bay chancel with south vestry. Gothic Revival style with Geometrical tracery. Chamfered plinth; diagonal buttresses at east and west ends; ashlar gable copings with crosses. Gabled porch has double chamfered arch and hoodmould with head-carved stops; similar doorway and benches within. Nave: cusped 2-light window with quatrefoils, hoodmoulds and relieving arches. Bell tower projects and has quoins and cusped doorway beneath quatrefoil; offsets beneath belfry with each side having gable with 3 quatrefoils in pointed arch with hoodmould; slated pyramidal spire with weathervane. West window of nave of 2 lights with colonnette and hexafoil over. Chancel: string course beneath cusped lancets. 3-light east window. Vestry has doorway to east and hipped roof." "INTERIOR: contemporary pitch-pine fittings. Scissor-braced trusses to nave. Broad chancel arch with carved heads on the hoodmould stops; arch-braced roof. In prominent position overlooking the Duddon Estuary. (Trans Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian &Archaeological Soc: Hobbs J L: Notes on Ireleth School and Chapel: Kendal: 1948-: 165)." |
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| dedication | ||
| person:- | : St Peter |
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| place:- | Ireleth with Askam / Carlisle Diocese | |
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