Church Of St Cuthbert

KENTMERE SP 1083 CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT 0/1083 Church

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Parish Church. C16, substantially rebuilt (by subscription) in 1866; some further alterations in the 1930s. Rough cast rubble; local graduated slate roof. West tower nave and chancel (externally undivided), South porch. West tower, saddleback with coping, finials (stone to East, metal to West); 2 stages, 2-light round-headed belfry openings to all sides, single lancet to West. Nave and chancel treated in the simplest way with round-headed lancets (4 to nave, 3 to chancel) to North and South. South porch, gabled with depressed arched doorway, and with one C18 and one early C19 gravestone built into South wall. 4-light East window under segmental head, plain mullions, uncusped. Interior: uninterrupted space. C16 roof with moulded ties, ridge piece and purlins, shallow pitch, boarded. C19 tower screen, simple stalls and benches. Flag floor; the windows are deeply splayed. Only one monument of note: to Bernard Gilpin (barn at Kentmere), 1901 by the Keswick School of Industrial Arts, bronze with foliage frame: 'Arts and Crafts, almost Arts and Crafts, almost Art Nouveau' (Pensner, Buildings of England - Cumberland and Westmorland, p25.

Listing NGR: NY4563104107