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chapel, Wigton
Street:-   Water Street
locality:-   Wigton
civil parish:-   Wigton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   chapel
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY25634832
1Km square:-   NY2548
10Km square:-   NY24
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 29 5) 
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.
"Independent Chapel / Grave Yard"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"UNITED REFORM CHURCH AND ADJOINING MANSE / / WATER STREET / WIGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72051 / NY2563448320"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church and manse. Dated on inscription near entrance. THIS CHURCH WAS OPENED FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP OCTOBER 8TH 1834. Snecked red sandstone ashlar with string courses on chamfered plinth. Graduated slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays with cellar. Steps up to south panelled doors under glazed fanlight in pilastered surround with console bracketed cornice. Lead-paned flat-headed ground floor windows with round-headed windows above. Similar lead-paned windows to sides. No interior features of interest. Manse adjoining to rear has cement rendered walls under Welsh slate roof. C20 door under radial fanlight in painted surround with false keystone. Sash windows with glazing bars over painted stone sills."

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