St Thomas' Church, Crosscrake

St Thomas' Church, Crosscrake

St Thomas' Church, Crosscrake, from the southeast
St Thomas' Church, Crosscrake
Location in Cumbria
Coordinates: 54°16′35″N 2°43′59″W / 54.2764°N 2.7330°W / 54.2764; -2.7330
Location Crosscrake, Cumbria
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website St Thomas, Crosscrake
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Paley and Austin
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking 1874
Completed 1875
Administration
Parish St Thomas, Crosscrake
Deanery Kendal
Archdeaconry Westmorland and Furness
Diocese Carlisle
Province York
Clergy
Vicar(s) Ian Swift

St Thomas' Church is in the village of Crosscrake, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Deanery of Kendal, the Archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the Diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with that of St Patrick, Preston Patrick.[1] The church was built in 1874–75, and designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin. It replaced an earlier church of 1773, and cost about £3,000 (equivalent to £250,000 in 2015).[2][3] Because of structural failure, the tower was reduced in 1944, and then removed completely in 1963. A shallow transept was made to disguise this, and a spirelet was added. The internal furnishings are also by Paley and Austin. The stained glass in the east window dates from about 1890, and is by Clayton and Bell.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ St Thomas, Crosscrake, Church of England, retrieved 28 August 2011
  2. ↑ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2016), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
  3. ↑ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 228, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
  4. ↑ Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 313, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
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