Clark Street Congregational Church, in
Morecambe
Morecambe ( ) is a seaside town and civil parish in the City of Lancaster district in Lancashire, England. It is in Morecambe Bay on the Irish Sea.
Name
The first use of the name was by John Whitaker in his ''History of Manchester'' (1771), w ...
,
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly.
The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
, England, was built in 1863 and designed by the
Lancaster architect
E. G. Paley. It provided seating for 350 people.
The chapel has a northwest tower, a southwest porch, and windows containing
plate tracery
Tracery is an architectural device by which windows (or screens, panels, and vaults) are divided into sections of various proportions by stone ''bars'' or ''ribs'' of moulding. Most commonly, it refers to the stonework elements that support the ...
. The church closed before 1980,
and has been converted into offices.
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See also
*List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley
Edward Graham Paley (1823–95) (usually known as E. G. Paley) was an English architect who practised for the whole of his career from an office in Lancaster, Lancashire. He was born in Easingwold, North Yorkshire, and moved to Lancaster in ...
References
Churches completed in 1863
Church buildings by E. G. Paley
Former churches in Lancashire
Churches in the City of Lancaster
Congregational churches in Lancashire
Clark Street
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