Latitude: 54.7165 / 54°42'59"N
Longitude: -2.964 / 2°57'50"W
OS Eastings: 337999
OS Northings: 536145
OS Grid: NY379361
Mapcode National: GBR 7FRX.31
Mapcode Global: WH80V.FQT4
Plus Code: 9C6VP28P+HC
Entry Name: Church of St Kentigern
Listing Date: 27 December 1967
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1326686
English Heritage Legacy ID: 73726
Also known as: St Kentigern's Church, Castle Sowerby
ID on this website: 101326686
Location: St Kentigern's Church, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, CA11
County: Westmorland and Furness
District: Eden
Civil Parish: Castle Sowerby
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Castle Sowerby St Kentigern
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Church building
NY 33NE CASTLE SOWERBY
8/4 Church of 27.12.67 St Kentigern
8/4
II*
Parish church. C12 with C13, C14, C15 and C17 alterations and additions; with restorations of 1821, and 1888 by C.J. Ferguson. Whitewashed rubble walls with west buttresses, under graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finial. 5-bay nave and south aisle with south porch and twin open bellcote. 2-bay chancel. North wall of nave has C17 2- and 3-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned windows, one without chamfers and one original pointed-arched window between the two eastern windows. Aisle has re-used round-arched doorway within a C14 stone porch. C17 2-light hollow-chamfered windows under moulded parapet. East wall of aisle has blocked pointed-arched window. Chancel has north lancet windows; south C15 or C16 priest's doorway and larger pointed-arched windows. C19 east window is flanked by blocked lancets. Interior of nave has 5-bay aisle of pointed arches on octagonal columns. C18 or C19 open timber roof. C18 creed and pater boards were probably put up at same time as Royal Arms of George II dated 1752. White marble wall plaques to Richard Richardson of Whamhead, 1796; Jane Mitchell of Whamhead, 1868 and George Burnthwaite of Lamonby, 1780. Re-cut red sandstone font bowl dated 1671(?) on C19 stem. Aisle has 2 aumbry recesses. Chancel: remains of south respond for removed chancel arch. C13 piscina. Open timber C16 or C17 roof of king-post trusses. White marble wall plaque to Rev Joseph Hudson, 1811, by Kirkbride of Carlisle. C19 stained glass east window. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, lxxiii, pp,170-189.
Listing NGR: NY3799936145
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