Description

NY 01 SW (INSET) EGREMONT SOUTH STREET (East
side) Egremont

9/43 Church of St Mary
9.3.67 & St Michael

G.V. II

Parish Church. 1881 by T. Lewis Banks (London and Whitehaven) replacing late
C12 church, parts of which were incorporated. Western baptistry gift of local
Freemasons 1883. Tower raised in 1901 by Oliver & Dodgshun (Carlisle).
Hammer-dressed, snecked, sandstone blocks with quoins; moulded plinth, strings,
eaves cornice, and pilaster buttresses. Graduated slate roofs with outshuts to
either side of chancel; stone copings, kneelers, and apex crosses. Embattled
tower to north-west corner, nave with aisles, short transept, and chancel.
Early English style. 4-stage tower has panelled door to ground floor; pointed
arch-head of 4 orders with foliate capitals to jamb-shafts. Similar 2-order
door in gabled porch on south side. Lancet windows, some in chancel and north
nave aisle re-used late C12; corbels of similar date to north aisle. Interior:
Pointed arches throughout; 5-bay nave arcade carried on columns with foliate
capitals. Nave roof carried on corbels. Transept arms separated from nave by
2-bay arcade carried on tall quatrefoil pier. 2-seater sedilia, pillar piscina,
and shelf, under wall arcade in chancel. Late C19 fittings. Pulpit of Caen
stone with alabaster figures, supported on marble shafts. Kneeling angel
supports scalloped font bowl. Drawings and description of earlier church by T.
Lewis Banks in C.W.A.A. Transactions, Old Series, Vol. 6, pp163-175.

Listing NGR: NY0112410568

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Mary and St Michael at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26378321

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