Church of St Kentigern is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1957. A Medieval Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Kentigern
- WRENN ID
- still-column-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1957
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Kentigern, Beaumont, Carlisle, CA5 6DS
- OS grid reference
- NY 372 580
- Coordinates
- 54.91311, -2.98045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Kentigern is a church located on a medieval site, with the current structure mentioned in 1703. It underwent restorations in 1740 and 1896. The church features a cement render on a chamfered plinth, a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables, kneelers, and a cross finial. It has a small square two-storey west tower, a three-bay nave, and a single-bay chancel. The tower includes ground-floor slit vents, and the bell chamber has louvred vents set in a segmental red sandstone arch. The tower is topped with a battlemented parapet featuring merlons. The nave has a wooden south porch and door from 1896, along with leaded-pane windows in both the nave and chancel, also set in segmental red sandstone arches. There is an external aedicule wall plaque dedicated to John Forster, who died in 1819. Inside, the church contains 19th-century marble wall plaques, including one to Flora Steel by George Nelson of Carlisle, and a painted wooden panel of the Royal Arms on the west wall of the nave.
Local climate
Church of St Kentigern sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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