OS grid reference SD 379,859 Denomination Anglican Status Parish church Province Province of York | Country England Functional status Active Diocese Diocese of Carlisle Deanery Windermere, Cumbria | |
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Location Staveley-in-Cartmel, Cumbria Website St Mary,
Staveley-in-Cartmel Address Lake District National Park, Ulverston LA12 8NH, UK Architectural style English Gothic architecture Architect Sharpe, Paley and Austin (restoration) Similar St Peter's Church - Field Bro, St Peter's Church - Finsthwaite, St Mary's Church - Allithwaite, Cartmel Priory | ||
St Mary's Church is in the village of Staveley-in-Cartmel, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
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History
A church was present on the site by 1618, and was repaired in 1678. The south aisle and the tower date possibly from 1793. The church was restored in 1897 by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley. The restoration included removal of pews, reroofing and reseating the church, and replacing the stone arcade with one in timber. Its estimated cost was £1,000 (equivalent to £100,000 as of 2015).
Architecture
The church is constructed in stone rubble with slate roofs. Its plan consists of a nave and a chancel in one range, a south aisle, and a west tower with a vestry to its south. The tower has a west doorway, with a two-light window above it. The paired bell openings are round-headed, and the battlemented parapet has crocketed pinnacles at the corners. There is a clock face on the north side. On the sides of the church are two-light round-headed windows. The east window has three lights.
Inside the church is a five-bay oak arcade, and a 19th-century open timber roof. The furniture dates from the 19th century and includes a simple octagonal font, and a timber pulpit decorated with traceried panels. The two-manual pipe organ is located at the east end of the south aisle, and was built by Wilkinson of Kendal in 1870.