St Mary & St Michael, Egremont

St Mary & St Michael, Egremont
St Mary & St Michael, Egremont
St Mary & St Michael, Egremont Location in Cumbria
54°28′51″N3°31′39″W / 54.4807°N 3.5276°W / 54.4807; -3.5276
OS grid reference	NY 0111810565
Location	Egremont, Cumbria
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
History
Status	Parish church
Dedication	St Mary & St Michael
Administration
Province	York
Diocese	Carlisle
Archdeaconry	West Cumberland
Deanery	Calder
Parish	Egremont
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Rev'd Melanie Appleby

St Mary & St Michael is in Egremont, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice of Egremont with Bigrigg & Haile. ^[1] The church is a grade 2 listed building. ^{[2] [3]}

History

St Mary & St Michael's Church was built in 1881, to a design by T.L Banks of Whitehaven, replacing an earlier 12th century church. A recess in the west wall houses the baptistry, donated by the Freemasons of Egremont in 1883, contains seven stained-glass windows. In 1901 the tower was raised 42 feet by Oliver & Dodgshun (Carlisle) and contains a set of eight bells presented by Lord Leconfield.

Architecture

The church has hammer-dressed, snecked, sandstone blocks with quoins; moulded plinth, strings, eaves cornice, and pilaster buttresses. It has a graduated slate roof with outshoots to either side of the chancel with stone copings, kneelers, and apex crosses. There is an embattled tower to north-west corner, nave with aisles, short transept, and chancel. The 4-stage tower has a panelled door to ground floor with a pointed arch-head of 4 orders with foliate capitals to jamb-shafts. There is a similar 2-order door in the gabled porch on south side. The lancet windows, some in chancel and north nave aisle re-used are late 12th century; the corbels are of similar date to north aisle. The interior has pointed arches throughout with a 5-bay nave arcade carried on columns with foliate capitals. The nave roof is carried on corbels. The transept arms are separated from nave by a 2-bay arcade carried on tall quatrefoil pier. There are 2-seater sedilia, pillar piscina, and shelf, under wall arcade in chancel. The pulpit is Caen stone with alabaster figures, supported on marble shafts. The font has a sculpture of a kneeling angel holding a large scallop shell, copied from a design by Thorvaldsen in the Lutheran Cathedral in Copenhagen. Above the altar is a carved reredos, and above that a large stained glass window. The glass in the rose window was replaced with a modern design by Christine Boyce in 1992. ^[4]

Churchyard

The churchyard extension has 2 Commonwealth War Graves from the First and Second World War ^[5]

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References

1. "A Church Near You". A Church Near You. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
2. "Egremont: St Mary & St Michael - CHR Church". facultyonline.churchofengland.org. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
3. "CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL, Egremont - 1086711 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
4. "Blessing the Earth - Painted". Christine Boyce. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
5. "Cemetery Details | CWGC". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 24 October 2020.