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| St Margaret, Low Wray | ||
| St Margaret's Church | ||
| Low Wray Church | ||
| Wray Church | ||
| locality:- | Low Wray | |
| civil parish:- | Claife (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church | |
| coordinates:- | NY37230075 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3700 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
| references:- | : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Nurse 1918 |
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| source data:- | Map, The Diocese of Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland, and
Lancashire North of the Sands, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by
Rev Euston J Nurse, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, 11
English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 2nd edn 1939. NUR1NY30.jpg "LOW WRAY" item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St Margaret |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST MARGARET WRAY / / / CLAIFE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76761 / NY3722500754" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "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." |
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 BZI90.jpg (taken 20.9.2013) |
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 CDP23.jpg Organ, by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal. (taken 2015) courtesy of Elizabeth Bingham  CDP24.jpg Organ, by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal. (taken 2015) courtesy of Elizabeth Bingham  CDP25.jpg Organ, by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal. (taken 2015) courtesy of Elizabeth Bingham  CDP26.jpg Organ, by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal. (taken 2015) courtesy of Elizabeth Bingham  CDP27.jpg Organ, by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal. (taken 2015) courtesy of Elizabeth Bingham  CDP28.jpg Organ, by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal. (taken 2015) courtesy of Elizabeth Bingham  CDP29.jpg Organ pipes, by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal. (taken 2015) courtesy of Elizabeth Bingham |
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| hearsay:- |
Built 1840-47 at the same time as the castle. |
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| dedication | ||
| person:- | : St Margaret |
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| place:- | Low Wray / Carlisle Diocese | |
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