Description

ST CUTHBERT WITHOUT WREAY
NY 44 NW
11/30 Church of St Mary

1. 4.57
II*

Church. 184O-42 by Sarah Losh, with sculptural stonework by William Hindson,
erected by estate workers at her own expense. Dressed sandstone walls, stone-
slate roof. 4 bay nave with semicircular apse. Romanesque style showing both
French and Italian influence. Nave has 4 round-headed windows to each side,
with triple clerestory windows above. 2 gargoyles to each side representing
reptiles. Apse has recessed and round-headed niches with clerestory arcading
above. West gable entrance has round-headed arch decorated with roll-moulding
of formalised water-lilies and pine-cone motifs. 3 round-headed windows over
entrance with rising arcade of small windows above, surmounted by stone bellcote
with carved stone eagle. Down steps to right of entrance, is a small
stone-enclosed well. Interior on 3 levels, sunken body, steps up to apse. Apse
is surrounded by arcade of 14 columns with carved capitals. Ceiling of pine
panels and trusses of oak, floor of sandstone slabs. Seating of oak and Spanish
chestnut, other chairs and pulpit of carved local bog oak and ebony: lecturns
of carved chestnut representing eagle and pelican on bog oak stands: pulpit of
carved bog oak. Font of varved alabaster by Sarah Losh and W.S. Losh: altar of
green Italian marble on brass eagles. Non-figurative stained glass partly of
re-used glass from Archbishop's Palace, Paris. Carved wooden archangles on
either side of chancel arch. Carved wood and other details by local craftsmen.
Built close, or on site of, medieval church which was totally demolished on
rebiJilding, except for font (now in churchyard, listed separately), re-used
corbel stone above entrance to boiler house, and some re-used timber. See,
Pevsner, Buildings of England, Cumberland & Westmorland, p. 212; Country Life,
4 November, 1971 p. 123O-31.

Listing NGR: NY4352548921

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Mary's Church at Wikipedia
• St Mary's Church official website
• Wikidata Q7594462

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