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Latitude: 54.3984 / 54°23'54"N
Longitude: -2.9684 / 2°58'6"W
OS Eastings: 337225
OS Northings: 500754
OS Grid: NY372007
Mapcode National: GBR 7KQL.42
Mapcode Global: WH82D.CQQ0
Plus Code: 9C6V92XJ+8J
Entry Name: Church of St Margaret
Listing Date: 25 March 1970
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1335724
English Heritage Legacy ID: 76761
ID on this website: 101335724
Location: High Wray, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, LA22
County: Cumbria
District: South Lakeland
Civil Parish: Claife
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Hawkshead St Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Church building
CLAIFE WRAY
NY 30 SE
Church of St Margaret
3/16
Wray
25.3.70
GV II
Church. 1845. Possibly by H.P. Horner. Dressed stone with ashlar window
dressings, slate roof. Nave, chancel with south tower and north vestry. 3-bay
nave has 3-light west window with Decorated tracery and angle buttresses; gable
cross. North and south facades have cusped lancets, between weathered
buttresses. South porch is gabled, the gable with sundial dated 1856 and cross;
clasping buttresses and plain-chamfered pointed entrance. Tower has deep
weathered diagonal buttresses and corbelled-out embattled parapet. Canted stair
turret to west on square base with clasping buttresses and small entrance. West
2-light window; 2nd stage has cusped lancets to south and east. Bell stage has
2 trefoil-headed louvred bell-openings to each side. Chancel has 3-light east
window, angle buttresses and gable cross, as has nave east gable. Octagonal
vestry has swept pyramidal roof and cross; small trefoil-headed lights to east
and north-west. Interior has waggon roof with ashlaring, plain chancel arch and
arches to vestry and organloft under tower. Stalls have tracery panels on north
side. Tracery panels also to reredos. Good stained glass to east window.
Canon Rawnsley, one of the founders of the National Trust, was an incumbent of
this church.
Listing NGR: NY3722500754
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