Description

SD 57 SW OVER KELLET BORWICK ROAD

4/134 Capernwray Church

II

Evangelical chapel, originally the chapel to Capernwray Hall. Mid C19th.
Snecked sandstone rubble with slate roof. Church comprises a nave, a
lower chancel and a tower over the south-west porch. The nave has 4 bays,
with chamfered lancets. The chancel has 2 bays with chamfered lancets with
hood moulds and stops and a moulded stone gutter on the north and south walls
with 3 carved stone heads on each side.' The north chancel will has a
chamfered doorway with hood mould. The east window of 3 lancets has a
continuous hood mould. The west window is of 5 lights with geometric
tracery. Gables have copings, kneelers and cross finials. The 5-stage
tower has clasping buttresses, and lancets with hoods and floral stops:
on the south side on the'ground floor and on 3 sides on the 1st floor. The
west door has moulded imposts and a hood with stops. Bell openings are of
triple cusped lancets within sunken panels. Pyramidal slate roof has a
weather vane, and gargoyles to the gutters. Interior said to be sub-divided
by the insertion of a 1st floor.

Listing NGR: SD5418572252

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Capernwray Chapel at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5035285

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)