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| Our Lady and St Wilfrid, Warwick Bridge | ||
| Our Lady and St Wilfrid's Church | ||
| locality:- | Warwick Bridge | |
| civil parish:- | Wetheral (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church | |
| coordinates:- | NY47515682 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4756 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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Design by Pugin, 1841. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 2) |
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| 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. "R.C. Chapel" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St Mary and St Wilfred placename:- St Wilfred's Church, St Mary and item:- St Mary and St Wilfred's Church |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST WILFRED / / A69 / WETHERAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 77754 / NY4752156817" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Roman Catholic Church. 1841 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin for Henry Howard of Corby Castle. Red sandstone snecked ashlar walls, slate roof with coped gables. Nave of 4 bays, single bay chancel, gabled south porch, added sacristy to south wall of chancel. Nave has buttressed walls and angles, with alternating large and small lancets, larger windows of Y-shaped tracery and cusped heads. West entrance and porch have pointed entrance arches with moulded surrounds and hood moulds ending in mitred heads. West gable has 3 lancets with trefoil heads and hood moulds, surmounted by hexagonal bellcote. Interior has open timber roof, all painted and decorated with gold. Stone font beside south entrance, cut-stone pulpit on south wall of nave, beside chancel arch, has entrance from sacristy and decorated with figurative painted panels. Corresponding niche on north wall has figure of the Virgin. Text painted around dado panels, with decorative motifs painted on splays of the smaller lancets. Stained glass of 1860, 65 and 67, by Harrington of London, presented by Philip Howard. Chancel has screen of carved and painted wood with central crucifix, flanked by Virgin Mary and St Wilfred. Decorative painted ribbed plank ceiling and painted walls. Stepped altar, heavily gilded with metal work to Pugin's designs, flanked by 2 small coronas by Pugin. Sedilia and piscina in south wall; Easter-Sepulchre-like recess to north wall with tomb of Henry Howard (q.v.), died 1842. Retains all of original decorations much to Pugin's designs. See, Pheobe Stanton, Pugin, p.94-97." |
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