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St Paul, Grange-over-Sands
St Paul's Church
Grange-over-Sands Church
locality:-   Grange-over-Sands
civil parish:-   Grange-over-Sands (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD40737788
1Km square:-   SD4077
10Km square:-   SD47
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BLM96.jpg (taken 31.12.2005)  
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BLM97.jpg (taken 31.12.2005)  

evidence:-   old print:- Philip/Wilson 1890s
source data:-   Print, engraving, Grange and Holme Island, published by George Philip and Son, London, Philip, Son and Nephew, Liverpool, Lancashire, and Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1895.
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PW1E02.jpg
"GRANGE AND HOLME ISLAND."
item:-  JandMN : 58.3
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Nurse 1918
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.
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NUR1SD37.jpg
"GRANGE-OVER-SANDS"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Paul
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST PAUL / / CHURCH HILL / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460515 / SD4073877889"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. 1853-4. By J Murray. North aisle said to be added in 1861, south aisle in 1867, and chancel in 1932 (Pevsner). West porch dated 'MCMLI'. Snecked limestone with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. Comprises a nave, north aisle and south aisle under pitched roofs, a gabled porch at the west end of the south aisle, and a lower chancel with polygonal apse. The west end has a buttress, between the nave and south aisle gables, that rises to support a bell-turret with stone spirelet. The nave and aisles have west windows with Geometrical tracery (of 2 lights to the north aisle and 4 lights to the others). The single-storey porch has a mullioned window of 3 lights facing west, a parapet, and a doorway in its south wall. The north aisle has 4 bays to the west of the vestry, with 2-light windows which have flowing tracery. The south porch has a pointed window of 2 lights below a gable, and a mullioned window of 4 trefoiled lights in a C20 eastern extension. The east wall contains a re-set moulded pointed doorway. The 3 bays of the south aisle have 2-light windows with quatrefoils in their curved triangular heads. The east window is of 4 lights and the 3-sided apse has a 3-light east window."
"INTERIOR: the 5-bay arcades have pointed sandstone arches chamfered in 2 orders, carried on paired brown marble columns with sandstone capitals. The chancel arch is moulded and pointed, with the inner order rising from wall corbels. The roofs are boarded, with scissor-braced rafters. A tall pointed arch divides the south aisle from the east chapel, which has 2 tall arches opening into the chancel. On the north side the organ chamber has arched openings to the chancel and north aisle. The font is of carved oak with an inset metal bowl and carved timber cover. At the west end there are 2 pairs of churchwardens' stalls with carved and crested canopies, and wall panelling, all mid C20 and finely carved in oak."

incumbents:-  
Rigg, Wilson  1853 - 1857 
Smith, H R  1858 - 1888 
Cooper, J T  1888 - 1907 
Farrar, Ivor G  1908 - 1916 


photograph
BUD73.jpg  Organ, designed by George Rathbone, Cartmel, installed by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal.
(taken 4.3.2011)  
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CBF47.jpg  Mothers Union banner
(taken 23.7.2014)  
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BUD72.jpg  Kneeler.
(taken 4.3.2011)  
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BUD71.jpg  Memorial to Annie L Porritt, died 1943, et al
(taken 4.3.2011)  

notes:-  
The church was built 1851-53, designed by T D Barry, Liverpool. A north aisle was added 1861; a south aisle in 1867; the chancel lengthened in 1875; a planned rebuilding of 1912 was prevented by World War I and the subsequent rise in costs; there were enlargements in 1932; more improvements were made in 1953.

: : church leaflet

dedication
person:-    : St Paul
place:-   Grange over Sands / Carlisle Diocese

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