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NY 51 NW
12/81

BAMPTON
BAMPTON GRANGE
Church of St Patrick

6.2.68

II*

Parish Church. 1726-28 on medieval site with 1804 restoration. Large blocks of calciferous sandstone with V-jointed quoins, partly rendered, on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finials, being relaid in 1986. Seven-bay with west square three-storey tower/porch; two-bay chancel. Tower has west double plank doors and overlight in pilastered surround under broken segmental pediment. Two-light round-headed windows and bell openings. Nave has tall round-headed windows in stone surrounds with false keystones. At the west end of both the north and south walls is a doorway, blocked on the south. Chancel has similar windows and a triple round-headed east window. At various points around the walls C18 gravestones have been set in.

INTERIOR: three-bay timber arcades of round arches of Tuscan columns. Barrel vaulted timber roof. C18 panelled pulpit and pews containing earlier panels one dated 1684. C18, C19 and C20 white marble wall plaques. Square C12 font bowl on C20 plinth, the bowl inscribed: 'MW 1662'. One C19 figurative stained-glass window. Chancel has C19 stained-glass east window by Ward and Hughes. C19 white marble wall plaques to members of the Noble family. Early C18 turned-baluster communion rails.

Parish register records that the church was consecrated on 20 June 1728 by the Bishop of Carlisle.

See RCHM, Westmorland, 1936, pp28-9.

Listing NGR: NY5215718040

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543223

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living