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St Patrick's Church, Preston Patrick
St Patrick's Church, Preston Patrick from the south
St Patrick's Church, Preston PatrickLocation in Cumbria
54°14′43″N 2°42′43″W / 54.2452°N 2.7119°W / 54.2452; -2.7119
OS grid reference	SD 537,835
Location	Preston Patrick, Cumbria
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Patrick, Preston Patrick
History
Status	Parish church
Dedication	Saint Patrick (the church was formerly dedicated to Saint Gregory)
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	20 September 1985
Architect(s)	Sharpe and Paley Paley, Austin and Paley
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1852
Completed	1892
Construction cost	£1,400 (equivalent to £190,000 in 2023)
Administration
Province	York
Diocese	Carlisle
Archdeaconry	Westmorland and Furness
Deanery	Kendal

St Patrick's Church is the parish church of Preston Patrick, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican church, one of eight parish churches served by the Kirkby Lonsdale Team Ministry. It is in the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

History

Until the 19th century, this locality was within the large rural parish of Heversham. However, there was a chapel on the site. In 1850 the Lancaster architects Edmund Sharpe and E. G. Paley reported that the chapel appeared, from its architectural design, to have been built during the reign of Henry VII (1457–1509). The architects designed a new church. Building started in 1852 and the new church opened on 28 November of that year. It cost about £1,400 (equivalent to £190,000 in 2023), and had seating for 1,386 people. In 1892 the chancel was rebuilt by Paley, Austin and Paley, the successors of Sharpe and Paley.

Architecture

Exterior

The church is constructed in limestone with limestone dressings in the nave, and sandstone dressings in the chancel. The roof is of slate, with a stone ridge and copings. Fabric from the earlier church is incorporated in this church consisting of a window in the tower and niches in the chancel. The architectural style is Perpendicular. The plan of the church consists of a west tower, a four-bay nave with a north aisle and a south porch, a single-bay chancel, and a vestry. The tower is square, and in four stages that are separated by a string courses. The top stage contains bell openings in each face, and the tower is surmounted by battlemented parapets. At its southwest corner is a bell turret that rises to a higher level than the tower. In the body of the church, the west and east windows have four lights.

Interior

Inside the church, the nave is whitewashed, and it contains a north arcade carried on monolithic limestone columns. The chancel is lined with sandstone ashlar. Flanking the east window are two canopied niches. The stained glass in the east window is by Shrigley and Hunt and depicts the Te Deum. There are two war memorials, one by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, the other by Powells. The two-manual pipe organ was made by Wilkinson of Kendal in 1891, and has been modified several times.

Gallery

• View of site of St Patrick's Church including part of the graveyard & main entrance to the churchyard.
• View of west tower and south porch.

See also

• Listed buildings in Preston Patrick
• List of works by Sharpe and Paley
• List of works by Paley, Austin and Paley

References

Citations

1. ^ Historic England, "Church of St Patrick, Preston Patrick (1312122)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 May 2012
2. St Patrick, Preston Patrick, Church of England, retrieved 25 June 2010
3. Bingham, R. "Heversham". Retrieved 28 August 2021.
4. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)", MeasuringWorth, retrieved 7 May 2024
5. Curwen, John F., ed. (1926), Supplementary Records: Preston Patrick: Records relating to the Barony of Kendale:, vol. 3, University of London & History of Parliament Trust, pp. 274–277, retrieved 25 June 2010
6. Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 216.
7. Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 239.
8. Hyde & Pevsner 2010, pp. 580–581.
9. "NPOR [D00928]", National Pipe Organ Register, British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 1 July 2020

Sources

• Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
• Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) , Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1

External links

• Church plan
• Visit Cumbria – church photographs

• Church of England church buildings in Cumbria
• Grade II listed churches in Cumbria
• Churches completed in 1892
• 19th-century Church of England church buildings
• Gothic Revival church buildings in England
• Gothic Revival architecture in Cumbria
• Diocese of Carlisle
• Sharpe and Paley buildings
• Paley, Austin and Paley buildings