Church of St Barnabas is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Church.
Church of St Barnabas
- WRENN ID
- ruined-cinder-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Barnabas, Setmurthy, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 184 322
- Coordinates
- 54.67828, -3.26608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Barnabas is a parish church built in 1794, with a restoration in 1870. It features a mix of slate and split cobble rubble, topped with a graduated greenslate roof that has coped gables and a cross finial. The church has a 2-bay nave and chancel, along with a polygonal turret on the north-west side and a polygonal baptistery on the south-west side. There is a west pointed-arched doorway located between the tower and the baptistery. The nave includes 2-light windows, while the east window is a 3-light design. Inside, the church boasts an open timber roof and late 19th-century furnishings, including a carved door frame, altar panelling, and a pulpit. The interior also features late 19th-century figurative stained glass and brass windowsill memorial inscriptions. There are various brass wall plaques, mostly dedicated to the Hoskins family of Higham Hall. In the baptistery, there is a carved pedestal font dated 1661, which bears the initials VMB.
Local climate
Church of St Barnabas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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