Church Of St Peter

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27NW IRELETH BROW, Ireleth 708-1/1/218 (West side) Church of St Peter

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Church. 1865. Patron The Duke of Buccleuch, on land given by John Todd (Hobbs). Rubble limestone with red sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 4-bay nave with north porch and with bell-tower at north-east corner; lower 2-bay chancel with south vestry. Gothic Revival style with Geometrical tracery. Chamfered plinth; diagonal buttresses at east and west ends; ashlar gable copings with crosses. Gabled porch has double chamfered arch and hoodmould with head-carved stops; similar doorway and benches within. Nave: cusped 2-light window with quatrefoils, hoodmoulds and relieving arches. Bell tower projects and has quoins and cusped doorway beneath quatrefoil; offsets beneath belfry with each side having gable with 3 quatrefoils in pointed arch with hoodmould; slated pyramidal spire with weathervane. West window of nave of 2 lights with colonnette and hexafoil over. Chancel: string course beneath cusped lancets. 3-light east window. Vestry has doorway to east and hipped roof. INTERIOR: contemporary pitch-pine fittings. Scissor-braced trusses to nave. Broad chancel arch with carved heads on the hoodmould stops; arch-braced roof. In prominent position overlooking the Duddon Estuary. (Trans Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc: Hobbs J L: Notes on Ireleth School and Chapel: Kendal: 1948-: 165).

Listing NGR: SD2237177456