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| Lowther Street Methodist Church, Whitehaven | ||
| Lowther Street Methodist Church | ||
| Street:- | Lowther Street | |
| civil parish:- | Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | methodist chapel | |
| locality type:- | chapel | |
| locality type:- | school | |
| coordinates:- | NX97551803 | |
| 1Km square:- | NX9718 | |
| 10Km square:- | NX91 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "METHODIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL / / LOWTHER STREET / WHITEHAVEN / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 429158 / NX9755018030" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "1877 by T L Banks. Pink sandstone in crazy-paving pattern with ashlar dressings, slated roofs. Late C13 Gothic style with plate tracery Cruciform with wide apse and prominent south-west tower. Smaller meeting-room and custodian's flat included behind." "Interior has a deep gallery all round, with Tudor arcading to rail, resting on sandstone piers which rise to support a stone upper arcade. Capitals carved with foliage and angel heads. Organ in central east gallery. Raised pulpit probably later. Wall inserted below west gallery." "At rear the Sunday School building, now used as a concert hall, in plain coursed sandstone with some ornament to windows." |
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