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Latitude: 54.894 / 54°53'38"N
Longitude: -2.9307 / 2°55'50"W
OS Eastings: 340405
OS Northings: 555867
OS Grid: NY404558
Mapcode National: GBR 7CZV.9F
Mapcode Global: WH802.Y8L1
Plus Code: 9C6VV3V9+HP
Entry Name: Church of St Paul
Listing Date: 11 April 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1217889
English Heritage Legacy ID: 386790
ID on this website: 101217889
Location: St Paul's Church, Carlisle, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA1
County: Cumbria
District: Carlisle
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Carlisle
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Carlisle St Cuthbert with St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Church building
CARLISLE
NY4055NW LONSDALE STREET
671-1/12/199 (South side)
Church of St Paul
GV II
Church of England Church, now Elim Church. 1869-70 by
Habershon and Brock. Quarry-faced red sandstone on chamfered
plinth, with stepped buttresses and string course. Graduated
greenslate roofs with coped gables and cross finials.
5-bay nave with aisles and transepts; north-east tower
base/porch and south vestry. West double doors in
shallow-gabled porch, moulded arch with shafts, under large
plate-traceried window and rose window in gable. Flanking
similar small windows in aisles. Aisles to north and south
have paired lancets with quatrefoil heads. Paired clerestory
sunk cinquefoil windows in blind paired arches. Transepts have
plate traceried windows. Tower base has door similar to the
west doorway. Chancel has paired lancets and a plate tracery
east window. Vestry has plank door in chamfered flattened
arch.
INTERIOR: pointed aisle arches of alternating red and yellow
blocks of sandstone on round columns. Carved oak pulpit
inscribed to memory of Samuel Waldegrave (Bishop of Carlisle).
Some C19 and C20 stained glass in east window and nave. Open
timber roof. C20 screen at west end.
HISTORY: original plans dated 1869 are in Cumbria County
Record Office, Ca/E4/1044. The Carlisle Journal (1870) records
the laying of the foundation stone; consecrated 30 November
1870. Became Church of St Paul and St Mary in 1932; closed
1976 and declared redundant 1978 when all fittings were
removed.
(Carlisle Journal: 1 February 1870).
Listing NGR: NY4040555867
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