St Bridget's Church, Calder Bridge

St Bridget's Church, Calder Bridge

St Bridget's Church, Calder Bridge, from the south
St Bridget's Church, Calder Bridge
Coordinates: 54°26′27″N 3°28′44″W / 54.4407°N 3.4790°W / 54.4407; -3.4790
OS grid reference NY 041,060
Location Calder Bridge,
near Beckermet, Cumbria
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website St Bridget, Beckermet
History
Founder(s) Thomas Irwin
Dedication St Bridget
Consecrated 24 June 1844
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 14 July 1989
Architect(s) Edmund Sharpe
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Completed 1842
Construction cost Under £1,900
Administration
Parish St Bridget,
Beckermet and Ponsonby
Deanery Calder
Archdeaconry West Cumberland
Diocese Carlisle
Province York
Clergy
Rector Revd Jonathan M. S. Falkner

St Bridget's Church is on the north side of the A595 road in the village of Calder Bridge, near Beckermet, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]

History

William Sowerby was ordained in 1826 becoming curate to St. Bridgets until about 1837, when he responded to an appeal by Bishop Broughton and travelled to Australia becoming the first Anglican clergyman at Goulburn.[3] The current St Bridget's church was built between 1840 and 1842 to a design by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe.[4] It was paid for by Thomas Irwin of Calder Abbey. The church was opened for worship in May 1842, and consecrated on 24 June 1844 by Rt Revd John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester.[5] Its cost was under £1,900 (equivalent to £160,000 in 2015).[6][7]

Architecture

The church is constructed in local red sandstone ashlar with a slate roof.[2][4][5] Its plan is cruciform,[5] with a west tower, a three-bay nave, long transepts, and a short chancel, with a north vestry, and a south organ loft. The windows are lancets and around the church are buttresses. In the tower are louvred bell-openings, a corbelled parapet and pinnacles.[2] There are clock faces on three sides of the top stage of the tower.[5] The Pre-Raphaelite stained glass, made by Powell's and dated 1879, was designed by H. E. Wooldridge and H. J. Burrow.[4] The memorials in the north transept include one to Thomas Irwin and his wife.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Beckermet, St Bridget, Church of England, retrieved 20 April 2010
  2. 1 2 3 Historic England, "Church of St Bridget, Calder Bridge, Beckermet (1086589)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 28 May 2012
  3. ↑ Matheson,I.1976,'Sowerby, William (1799–1875)',Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, (MUP), 1976, available http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sowerby-william-4625
  4. 1 2 3 Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 217, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, p. 178
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 212, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
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