Church of Holy Ghost is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1989. Church.

Church of Holy Ghost

WRENN ID
eastward-vault-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 February 1989
Type
Church
Address
Church of Holy Ghost, A683, Middleton, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 623 861
Coordinates
54.26998, -2.58027
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of the Holy Ghost is a church built between 1878 and 1879 by C.J. Ferguson. It is constructed of dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with a tile crest. The church consists of a single vessel nave and chancel, along with a small north vestry. The gables are coped and topped with crosses, and there are weathered buttresses on the wall separating the nave and chancel. The gabled bellcote has gabled buttresses and a cinquefoil bell opening.

On the south facade, there are four straight-headed windows with tracery and label moulds; the eastern bay window has two cusped panels beneath it. The second bay of the nave features a three-light window with a hoodmould and cusped lights. The west end has a two-light window with a segmental-pointed head and a hood. The north facade includes a small gabled vestry with a two-light cross-mullioned window that has cusped upper lights, and a lean-to porch to the west, where the entrance has a decorative sinking to the lintel. An adjoining buttress has a light that leads to the porch.

The nave has a three-light window in the eastern bay, similar to those described above, and two straight-headed windows in the second bay. The western bay features a pointed entrance with continuous moulding, while the east end has a three-light window, with the central light being large and round-headed, likely designed to accommodate an existing stained glass window.

Inside, the church has a single-rafter roof supported by scissor and collar braces. There is an octagonal font with quatrefoil panels and lettering, topped with an enriched flat cover. The western screen has a segmental central opening, and there are cusped lights and brattishing. The chancel arch is double-chamfered, with the inner chamfer resting on corbels. An enriched timber pulpit and lectern are styled in the 16th century manner, and the stalls feature tracery fronts. A south seat recess is located between the windows, and the reredos is also in the 16th century style. The north vestry door has a wall memorial to Anne Moore, who died in 1772, featuring fluted pilasters, a frieze, and a broken pediment with an apron. The east window contains late 19th-century stained glass, with three lights dated 1862, while the tracery lights are later additions.

Local climate

Church of Holy Ghost sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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