Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD16NE PROMENADE, Walney Island
708-1/5/276 (West side (off))
06/05/76 Church of St Mary

GV II

Church. 1907-8; aisles and vestry added and west end completed
1928. By Austin and Paley. Coursed squared sandstone with
ashlar dressings; red tile, slate and lead roofs.
5-bay nave with lean-to aisles and south porch; 2-bay chancel
with transepts, lean-to south chapel and north vestry. Gothic
Revival style, Perpendicular details.
Nave: aisles have square-headed, mullioned windows of 2 and 3
arched lights; single buttress; priest door near south
transept has cavetto-moulded arch. Porch door (facing east),
has moulded, pointed arch with hoodmould; ashlar parapet to
hipped roof. Clerestorey: impost band links 4-light windows
with arched lights and panel tracery under cavetto-moulded
segmental arches. Broad buttresses flank 4-light west window;
gable with quatrefoil, moulded copings and cross. Coped east
gable has round, ashlar chimney. Chancel: slightly lower.
Buttressed south transept has transomed 3-light window under
cavetto-moulded arch; shallow gable with coped parapet. Chapel
on right with mullioned 3-light window to south and pointed
3-light window to east under coped 1/2 gable. Broad buttresses
flank east window of 5 lights with crenellated transom, cusped
lights and segmental arch with hoodmould. Embattled ashlar
parapet set forward of coped gable with slit and cross.
Vestry: two 4-light mullioned windows to east; 2 small gables
to north against buttressed transept; bellcote rises from
transept parapet.
INTERIOR: exposed stonework. Arcades have cavetto-moulded and
chamfered arches which die into ogee-moulded piers. Paired
trusses with King and Queen posts and collars. Crossing with
cylindrical piers to west and cavetto/chamfered arches; 2
arches to south chapel, single arch to north transept. Arched
chancel ceiling with bow-string truss. Octagonal font on
colonettes; semi-octagonal oak pulpit on ashlar plinth.
Seating of c1950 and 1958.
Built adjacent to site of late C17 chapel demolished 1852; a
new chapel erected 1853 but also demolished. With the building
of Vickerstown the population of Walney Island rose from
approx 500 in 1891 to approx 5,000 in 1903 thus requiring a
more suitable place of worship.
(A Short History of The Parish Church of Walney Island: St
Mary The Virgin: Barrow in Furness: 2-9).

Listing NGR: SD1854468590

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Mary the Virgin's Church, Walney at Wikipedia
• St Mary the Virgin's Church, Walney official website
• Wikidata Q7594650

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