Church Of Holy Saviour

NZ 17 NW 11/329

PONTELAND MILBOURNE Church of Holy Saviour

GV II

Church of England chapel of ease. 1868, dated on vestry, the gift of Miss Jane Anne Bates of Milbourne Hall. Ashlar with Lakeland slate roof. Mainly Geometric style. Porch-tower with spire, nave, chancel and vestry.

Porch-tower has pointed-arched doorway with gablet over and niche with seated Christ. Clock stage above and 2nd floor bell stage; 2-light bell openings with waterleaf capitals and pierced quatrefoil over, in frame of dogtooth. Broach spire. On west side of tower a 2-storey round stair turret with pierced quatrefoils and conical stone roof.

3-bay nave has cusped lancets and string which rises over windows and continues on to chancel where it drops to form a sill string.

2-bay chancel has one 2-light Geometric window and one cusped lancet. 2 large offset buttresses. 3-light Geometric east window. Lean-to vestry on north side has datestone and initials of donor, also tall corniced chimney.

Gabled roof with flat coping and foliate cross finials.

Interior: Panelled wood ceilings. Good contemporary, Gothic wood lectern, pulpit and choir stalls. Brass and wrought-iron altar rails. Reredos is a copy in stone of The Last Supper.

Tall twisted lamp standards, formerly for gas, attached to pew ends. Round font with crocketed base.

Listing NGR: NZ1171675071