St Mary's Church, Staveley

St Mary's Church, Staveley
Church of St Mary, Staveley-in-Cartmel

St Mary's Church, Staveley, from the northwest
St Mary's Church, Staveley
Location in Cumbria
Coordinates: 54°15′55″N 2°57′15″W / 54.2653°N 2.9543°W / 54.2653; -2.9543
OS grid reference SD 379,859
Location Staveley-in-Cartmel, Cumbria
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website St Mary,
Staveley-in-Cartmel
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 25 March 1970
Architect(s) Austin and Paley (restoration)
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic
Specifications
Materials Stone, slate roof
Administration
Parish St Mary,
Staveley-in-Cartmel
Deanery Windermere
Archdeaconry Westmorland and Furness
Diocese Carlisle
Province York
Clergy
Vicar(s) Canon Peter Calvert

St Mary's Church is in the village of Staveley-in-Cartmel, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.[1] It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]

History

A church was present on the site by 1618, and was repaired in 1678. The south aisle and the tower date possibly from 1793. The church was restored in 1897 by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley.[2][3] The restoration included removal of pews, reroofing and reseating the church, and replacing the stone arcade with one in timber. Its estimated cost was £1,000 (equivalent to £100,000 as of 2015).[4][5]

Architecture

The church is constructed in stone rubble with slate roofs. Its plan consists of a nave and a chancel in one range, a south aisle, and a west tower with a vestry to its south. The tower has a west doorway, with a two-light window above it. The paired bell openings are round-headed, and the battlemented parapet has crocketed pinnacles at the corners. There is a clock face on the north side. On the sides of the church are two-light round-headed windows.[2] The east window has three lights.[3]

Inside the church is a five-bay oak arcade,[5] and a 19th-century open timber roof.[3] The furniture dates from the 19th century and includes a simple octagonal font, and a timber pulpit decorated with traceried panels.[2] The two-manual pipe organ is located at the east end of the south aisle, and was built by Wilkinson of Kendal in 1870.[6]

External features

In the churchyard, standing on an outcrop of rock, is an 18th-century stone sundial. This consists of a square pier with a moulded base and cap. The plate and gnomon are missing. The sundial is listed at Grade II.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ St Mary, Staveley-in-Cartmel, Church of England, retrieved 25 July 2012
  2. 1 2 3 4 Historic England, "Church of St Mary, Staveley-in-Cartmel (1225679)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 July 2012
  3. 1 2 3 Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 630, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
  4. ↑ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2016), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
  5. 1 2 Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 242, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
  6. ↑ Lancashire (Cumbria), Staveley-in-Cartmel, St. Mary (D00942), British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 25 July 2012
  7. ↑ Historic England, "Sundial approximately 5 metres to west of St Mary's Church, Staveley-in-Cartmel (1266235)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 July 2012
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