St Mary's Church, Borwick

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St Mary's Church, Borwick
Style
Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking1894
Completed1896
Specifications
MaterialsStone, tiled roofs
Administration
ProvinceYork
DioceseBlackburn
ArchdeaconryLancaster
DeaneryTunstall
ParishSt Oswald, Warton
Clergy
Vicar(s)Revd Damian Michael Porter
Laity
Reader(s)Dr Margaret Coles
Churchwarden(s)Ron Ogden, Sally Rothwell
Parish administratorLinda Gardner

St Mary's Church is located to the north of the village of

Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn. Its benefice is united with those of St Oswald, Warton, and St John the Evangelist, Yealand Conyers.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]

History

The church was built in 1894–96 for William Sharp of Linden Hall in memory of his wife who had died in 1889. It was designed by the

consecrated on 24 June 1896.[2][3]

Architecture

St Mary's is constructed in

bellcote. Its architectural style is Gothic Revival. At the corners of the church are diagonal stepped buttresses rising to crocketed finials. On the north side of the nave are two three-light windows, with a two-light window in the north wall of the chancel. The east window has three lights. On the south side of the nave are three three-light windows.[2] All these windows contain simple Perpendicular-style tracery.[4] On each side of the vestry is a flat-headed two-light mullioned window.[2]

Inside the church are a Perpendicular-style

Harrison and Harrison. It was overhauled again in 2005 by David Wells of Liverpool.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ St Mary, Borwick, Church of England, retrieved 6 December 2011
  2. ^ a b c d e Historic England, "Church of St Mary, Borwick (1272423)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 6 December 2011
  3. ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
  4. ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
  5. National Pipe Organ Register, British Institute of Organ Studies
    , retrieved 30 June 2020
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