St Paul's Church is in Crown Hill,

Grange-over-Sands Grange-over-Sands is a town and civil parish located on the north side of Morecambe Bay in Cumbria, England, a few miles south of the Lake District National Park. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 4,042, increasing at the 2011 ...

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, England. It is an active Anglican

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in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the

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. Its benefice is united with those of St Mary, Allithwiate, St Mary and St Michael, Cartmel, St Peter, Field Broughton, St John the Baptist, Flookburgh,

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, and St Paul, Lindale, to form the benefice of Cartmel Peninsula. The church is recorded in the

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as a designated Grade II

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History

In 1851 an appeal was opened by Sarah Anne Clarke from

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to build a church in the town. This resulted in a church designed by J. Murray being built in 1852–53. This consisted of a

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, a short

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, a porch, and a baptistry. The foundation stone was laid by the

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in October 1852, and the church was consecrated on 13 October 1853 by Rt Revd John Graham,

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. It was expanded by T. D. Barry of Liverpool by the addition of a north

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in 1861, and a south aisle in 1867. The north aisle cost £662, and the south aisle £1,180. In 1875, the chancel was lengthened, and an organ chamber was added. At this stage, the church was re-consecrated on 6 June 1876 by the Rt Revd Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle. It became a parish church in its own right on 14 April 1884. A north porch was added in 1904. In 1912 it was planned to rebuild the church, but this was prevented by the First World War. After the war, the church was improved when the chancel and the south aisle were lengthened, and

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and a south porch were added by Henry Paley of the Lancaster architects

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in 1932–33. The interior of the church was re-ordered in the 1950s.

Architecture

The church is constructed in

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with

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dressings and slate roofs. Its plan consists of a nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, and chancel with a polygonal

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. At the west end is a bell turret topped by a stone spirelet. Inside the church are five- bay arcades carried on

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piers with sandstone capitals. Also in the church are two pairs of

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s' stalls dating from the 20th century, and a wooden font. The east window in the south chapel dates from 1888 and was designed by S. Evans; the other windows date from the 20th century and are by

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or by Abbott and Company. The two- manual pipe organ was built in 1873 by William Hill and Son, and restored in 1933 by Wilkinson and Son of Kendal.

References

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