Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Mary of Furness, Barrow-in-Furness


	St Mary of Furness, Barrow-in-Furness
	Church of St Mary of Furness
Street:-	Duke Street
civil parish:-	Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	church
coordinates:-	SD19526950
1Km square:-	SD1969
10Km square:-	SD16
references:-	Listed Buildings 2010

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St Mary of Furness
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST MARY OF FURNESS / / DUKE STREET / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388458 / SD1952069509"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Catholic church. 1866-67. By Edward Welby Pugin; tower dated 1888; sacristy and confessionals added 1894. Snecked red sandstone with gray ashlar sandstone dressings, slate roof. Orientated north-west/south-east: ritual orientation used here. 6-bay nave with west porch and lean-to aisles, 5-stage tower with spire at west end of south aisle; north aisle has octagonal baptistry at north-west corner and 3 small confessionals on north side; semi-octagonal chancel with small south chapel and north sacristy in link to presbytery (qv). Gothic Revival style; lancet windows with hoodmoulds and Geometrical rose windows. Nave: lean-to vestibule against west gable has central doorway with ogee-moulded arch, hoodmould with head-carved stops and roundel in coped gable with cross. Main gable has tall, cusped lancets; short dripmould; elaborate rose window with hoodmould; string course and 2 louvres beneath apex of coped gable with kneelers and cross. South aisle: deeply-chamfered plinth; offset buttresses; 6 lancets each with trefoil above a transom; 3-light chapel window on right. Clerestorey has 14 small lancets the easternmost pair in gabled projection with rose window and cross. North aisle: 2-light west window; baptistry has battered plinth, lancets and hipped roof. Confessionals under hipped roofs set below eaves of aisle; clerestorey as before. Tower: ashlar ground floor (date on Duke Street side). Set-back buttresses with traceried panels and gablets flank pointed west door; the buttresses rise 3 further stages. Above door is a statue of Mary and Child under crocketed canopy set between lancets; lancet above; string course below triple lancets to 4th stage. Buttresses end at an offset from which rise octagonal corner turrets to flank single-light belfry openings set between Ionic columns; blind arcading links the corner turrets which then rise as pinnacles. Slender ashlar spire with tall lucarnes, band of quatrefoils and cross. Chancel: semi-octagonal and under hipped end of main roof; triple lancets beneath continuous hoodmould, roof finial. Short and low south chapel with rose window to east." "INTERIOR: west gallery with organ. Arcades: square bases with broaches and moulding; round piers with octagonal and carved capitals; tall moulded arches, the easternmost pair are narrower. Paired clerestorey windows linked by hoodmoulds. Scissor-braced and arch-braced trusses. Chancel: ornate reredos; the triple lancets have colonettes and hoodmoulds; columns on angel corbels support radial, arch-braced roof with boss. Altar with marble colonnettes and crucifix under crocketed canopy flanked by statues of saints within niches. Lady Chapel has alabaster reredos with Mary and Child beneath a canopy. Stained glass in south aisle marked 'Barnell, Newcastle'. Built at a cost of L5,000-6,000, the tower costing a further ~2,950. Statue over west door of tower by 'Miss Rogerson of Liverpool' (Centenary booklet)." "(St Mary of Furness Centenary Celebrations (booklet): Barrow in Furness: 1965-)."

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "PRESBYTERY TO CHURCH OF ST MARY OF FURNESS WITH WALL CONNECTING TO CHURCH / / DUKE STREET / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388459 / SD1953969490"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Presbytery and attached wall. Late C19. By J Byrne of Liverpool (Mannex). Snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings, slate roof. 2 storeys; U-shaped plan with asymmetrical, 3-bay entrance front to Duke Street, 5-bay right return and longer wing across rear which links to Church of St Mary of Furness (qv). Entrance front: chamfered plinth; rounded corner on right, corbelled at 1st floor. Quoined doorway to left of centre has double-chamfered pointed arch and recessed door with Gothic overlight. Windows to bays 1 &3 have rounded sills and chamfered ashlar surrounds to later casements; bay 3 window is set beneath corbelled arch which supports a projecting stack; bay 1 window is below a canted, oriel bay window of 1:2:1 lights. Rounded 1st-floor sill band to a narrow sash above the door; stone gutter blocks. Bay 3 is gabled with gablet kneelers and ashlar copings; its stack has bricked-up slit, offsets and string course. Left end gable has projecting stack and same details. Right return: relieving arches to 5 ground-floor windows as front; rounded, 1st-floor sill band to four 2-light windows and two 1-light windows all having plain sashes. Gutter blocks; right end gable as others; 2 ridge stacks. Front wall of house continues to left as a screen wall, steps down over a square-headed doorway and links to Church of St Mary of Furness (qv)." "(Mannex Directory: Barrow in Furness: 1876-: 21)."

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