Latitude: 54.187 / 54°11'13"N
Longitude: -3.1911 / 3°11'27"W
OS Eastings: 322371
OS Northings: 477456
OS Grid: SD223774
Mapcode National: GBR 6N40.YV
Mapcode Global: WH729.Y1L0
Plus Code: 9C6R5RP5+QH
Entry Name: Church of St Peter
Listing Date: 20 December 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1292088
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388487
ID on this website: 101292088
Location: St Peter's Church, Ireleth, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, LA16
County: Westmorland and Furness
District: Barrow-in-Furness
Civil Parish: Askam and Ireleth
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Dalton-in-Furness St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Church building
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD27NW IRELETH BROW, Ireleth 708-1/1/218 (West side) Church of St Peter
II
Church. 1865. Patron The Duke of Buccleuch, on land given by John Todd (Hobbs). Rubble limestone with red sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 4-bay nave with north porch and with bell-tower at north-east corner; lower 2-bay chancel with south vestry. Gothic Revival style with Geometrical tracery. Chamfered plinth; diagonal buttresses at east and west ends; ashlar gable copings with crosses. Gabled porch has double chamfered arch and hoodmould with head-carved stops; similar doorway and benches within. Nave: cusped 2-light window with quatrefoils, hoodmoulds and relieving arches. Bell tower projects and has quoins and cusped doorway beneath quatrefoil; offsets beneath belfry with each side having gable with 3 quatrefoils in pointed arch with hoodmould; slated pyramidal spire with weathervane. West window of nave of 2 lights with colonnette and hexafoil over. Chancel: string course beneath cusped lancets. 3-light east window. Vestry has doorway to east and hipped roof. INTERIOR: contemporary pitch-pine fittings. Scissor-braced trusses to nave. Broad chancel arch with carved heads on the hoodmould stops; arch-braced roof. In prominent position overlooking the Duddon Estuary. (Trans Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc: Hobbs J L: Notes on Ireleth School and Chapel: Kendal: 1948-: 165).
Listing NGR: SD2237177456
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