St John the Evangelist's Church, Osmotherley

St John the Evangelist's Church, Osmotherley

West end of St John the Evangelist's Church, Osmotherley
St John the Evangelist's Church, Osmotherley
Location in Cumbria
Coordinates: 54°13′48″N 3°06′28″W / 54.2300°N 3.1077°W / 54.2300; -3.1077
OS grid reference SD 279 821
Location Osmotherley, Cumbria
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website St John the Evangelist, Osmotherley
History
Dedication Saint John the Evangelist
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 5 March 1990
Architect(s) Paley and Austin
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking 1873
Completed 1874
Specifications
Materials Slate with sandstone dressings
Administration
Parish St Mary with Holy Trinity, Ulverston
Deanery Furness
Archdeaconry Westmoreland and Furness
Diocese Carlisle
Province York
Clergy
Vicar(s) Revd Canon Alan C. Bing

St John the Evangelist's Church is in the village of Osmotherley, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with St Mary with Holy Trinity, Ulverston.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]

History

The church was built in 1873–74 to a design by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin.[3] It provided seating for about 150 people, and cost about £1,400 (equivalent to £117,000 in 2015).[4][5]

Architecture

St John's is constructed in coursed slate rubble with sandstone dressings. The roofs are slated, with tiles on the crest. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave and a chancel in one range, a north porch, and a south vestry. The chancel has an apsidal east end. At the west end of the church is a bellcote with a spirelet. All the windows are lancets, other than two square-headed windows in the vestry, and a rose window above two lancets at the west end. The porch consists of a wooden frame on stone bases, and it is gabled. The bellcote is wooden and hung with slates. Its spirelet is broached at the base, and contains small lucarnes.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. St John, Osmotherley, Church of England, retrieved 11 June 2011
  2. 1 2 Historic England, "St John the Evangelist, Osmotherley (1086796)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 23 June 2012
  3. 1 2 Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 562, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
  4. UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2016), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
  5. Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 227, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
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