Church Of St Aidan

The Church of St Aidan is a Church of England church located on Warwick Road in Carlisle. It was built in 1899, as noted on the foundation stone, and completed in 1902 by architect CJ Ferguson. The church is constructed from quarry-faced red sandstone and features a chamfered plinth, stepped buttresses, a string course, eaves cornice, and solid parapets on the aisles. The roofs are made of graduated greenslate with coped gables and cross finials.

The church has a plan that includes a six-bay nave and chancel under an uninterrupted roof, with west and south porches, aisles, a west open bellcote, a north-east vestry, and a south morning chapel. The west lean-to porch has a central gable, with elliptical-arched doorways on the north and south sides and a plate tracery window above. The aisles contain three-light traceried windows, while the clerestory features three-light flat-arched windows. The south chapel has a low flat porch with a pointed-arched door and a three-light flat-arched window, along with a right canted turret and higher-level chapel windows that are two-lights with cusped heads. The east window has five lights with plate tracery. The north vestry projects at an angle from the north-east corner and connects to the Church Hall. Beneath the east window is the datestone, and on the north wall of the chancel, there is a bronze bell, formerly from Highmoor House in Wigton, inscribed with the bell founder's name.

Inside, the church features early 20th-century fixtures and fittings, including an open timber roof. Pointed arches made of red sandstone rest on alternating round and octagonal piers, with one pier inscribed with the names of subscribers and their contributions towards the building cost. An inscription on the west wall notes that two bells, gifted by Mrs. Blanshard of Camerton Hall, were first rung on January 1, 1900, to welcome the new century. The church also contains 20th-century stained glass in the aisles and the east window, as well as an octagonal font with carved tracery panels. Original designs for the church can be found at the Cumbria County Record Office, and a photograph in the Cumberland News from 1982 shows the laying of the foundation stone on September 8, 1899.