Church of St Cuthbert is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Church.
Church of St Cuthbert
- WRENN ID
- sacred-vestry-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Cuthbert, Plumbland
- OS grid reference
- NY 141 392
- Coordinates
- 54.74062, -3.33495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Cuthbert is a parish church built in 1871 by J.A. Cory in partnership with C.J. Ferguson, located on a medieval site and incorporating some medieval features. The church is constructed of hammer-dressed St Bees and calciferous sandstone, with ashlar quoins, buttresses, and a string course. It has a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finials. The building features a 4-bay nave with aisles, a north organ chamber, and a 3-storey tower/porch. The chancel has 2 bays and a north vestry. The nave includes three gabled dormer clerestory windows and paired-lancet aisle windows. The tower has a south doorway and an east side window that is 13th century and reused from the original church. The chancel features paired lancet windows and a traceried east window.
Inside, there is a 4-bay north arcade and a 3-bay south arcade with pointed arches made of alternate red and yellow sandstone on round columns. The chancel arch is a re-used zigzag Norman design. The church contains unsigned late 19th century and early 20th century stained glass. There is a wall plaque from 1684 commemorating the Farish family and Reverend Edward Stanley, who died in 1834. The chancel also has late 19th century stained glass and wall plaques for the Ballantine-Dykes family. A 19th century piscina is present, with the medieval one now located in the vestry. The vestry doorway is a re-used 13th century feature.
Local climate
Church of St Cuthbert 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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