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St Mary, Walney Island
St Mary's Church
Barrow-in-Furness Church
Street:-   Church Lane
locality:-   Walney Island
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD18546856
1Km square:-   SD1868
10Km square:-   SD16
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

photograph
BOG57.jpg (taken 10.10.2007)  
evidence:-   old map:- Nurse 1918
placename:-  Walney Island church
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.
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NUR1SD57.jpg
"ST. MARY WALNEY ISLAND"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Mary
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY / / PROMENADE / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388557 / SD1854468590"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. 1907-8; aisles and vestry added and west end completed 1928. By Austin and Paley. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; red tile, slate and lead roofs. 5-bay nave with lean-to aisles and south porch; 2-bay chancel with transepts, lean-to south chapel and north vestry. Gothic Revival style, Perpendicular details. Nave: aisles have square-headed, mullioned windows of 2 and 3 arched lights; single buttress; priest door near south transept has cavetto-moulded arch. Porch door (facing east), has moulded, pointed arch with hoodmould; ashlar parapet to hipped roof. Clerestorey: impost band links 4-light windows with arched lights and panel tracery under cavetto-moulded segmental arches. Broad buttresses flank 4-light west window; gable with quatrefoil, moulded copings and cross. Coped east gable has round, ashlar chimney. Chancel: slightly lower. Buttressed south transept has transomed 3-light window under cavetto-moulded arch; shallow gable with coped parapet. Chapel on right with mullioned 3-light window to south and pointed 3-light window to east under coped 1/2 gable. Broad buttresses flank east window of 5 lights with crenellated transom, cusped lights and segmental arch with hoodmould. Embattled ashlar parapet set forward of coped gable with slit and cross. Vestry: two 4-light mullioned windows to east; 2 small gables to north against buttressed transept; bellcote rises from transept parapet."
"INTERIOR: exposed stonework. Arcades have cavetto-moulded and chamfered arches which die into ogee-moulded piers. Paired trusses with King and Queen posts and collars. Crossing with cylindrical piers to west and cavetto/chamfered arches; 2 arches to south chapel, single arch to north transept. Arched chancel ceiling with bow-string truss. Octagonal font on colonettes; semi-octagonal oak pulpit on ashlar plinth. Seating of c1950 and 1958. Built adjacent to site of late C17 chapel demolished 1852; a new chapel erected 1853 but also demolished. With the building of Vickerstown the population of Walney Island rose from approx 500 in 1891 to approx 5,000 in 1903 thus requiring a more suitable place of worship."
"(A Short History of The Parish Church of Walney Island: St Mary The Virgin: Barrow in Furness: 2-9)."
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Sharpe, Edmund
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
date:-   1853
New church; later demolished, 1930.
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Henry A
date:-   1907
 to 1908
Rebuild church.
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Henry A
date:-   1930
 to 1931
Work on the west end and vestry.
dedication
person:-    : St Mary
place:-   Barrow in Furness / Carlisle Diocese
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