Listing Text

NY 02 SW DISTINGTON CHURCH ROAD (South
side) Distington

2/20 Church of the Holy
Spirit
G.V.
II

Parish Church, 1886 by Hay & Henderson replacing medieval church. Snecked
rubble with quoins on chamfered plinth; stepped buttressing. Steeply pitched
graduated slate roofs with stone copings, kneelers, and apex crosses; decorative
ridge tiles. Corniced stone octagonal chimney to north side of chancel. 4-bay
nave, 2-bay chancel with low tower offset to south. 3 lancets to west end with
cinquefoil above. South porch, with moulded, pointed arch, in 2nd bay from
west. Paired lancet aisle windows; plate traceried nave clerestory windows each
3 quatrefoils under pointed containing arch. Lancets to north side of chancel,
3-stage tower (incorporating vestry) to south; east window 5 stepped lancets
with nook shafts. Interior: Pointed nave arcade carried on polished granite
piers with foliate capitals (carved 1897). Roof trusses spring from corbels;
decorative tie-beams. Moulded chancel arch on corbels. 3-seater sedilia with
piscina and aumbry in chancel. Ornate altar carved with interlaced arcading and
angels in niches. Polygonal pulpit carved with scenes from Bible. Bowl-shaped
marble font on pillar at west end; octagonal stone font from earlier church
dated 1662. Stained glass by Powell & Co.

Listing NGR: NY0042723600