Old Hutton: St John the Baptist

Name:
Old Hutton: St John the Baptist
Record Type:
Church
Church code:
607215
Diocese:
Carlisle
Archdeaconry:
Westmorland & Furness
Parish:
Old Hutton

Statutory Designation Information

Listed Building?
This is not a Listed Building
Scheduled Monument?
There is no Scheduled Monument within the curtilage or precinct

National Park

The church is not in a National Park

Conservation Area

The church is not in a Conservation Area

Heritage At Risk Status

On Heritage At Risk Register?
This church is not on the Heritage at Risk Register
 

Approximate Date

Approximate Date:
Victorian/Pre-WWI

Exterior Image

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Summary Description

Pevsner’s blistering condemnation of ‘wilful and irresponsible’ leaves little scope for gracious consideration. Yet the porch is modestly distinctive, its walling stopping at the tie beam – albeit the bell-turret, of an inventiveness defying convention, collides with it and everything else. The semi-circular east apse similarly and inexplicably mis-matches at the roof with short side walls, like a tear in the architect’s drawing the builder had to botch, or a problem in setting-out that no-one had the heart to remedy. The interior chancel works better and perhaps offers a rationale; the boarded soffit and radiating half trusses appear to work well over the curved whitewashed walls. The figurative stained glass is fading and losing detail. The late C17 almsbox is of interest, as is the chalice of 1459, the oldest pre-Reformation example of its type in Cumbria, though a photograph substitutes for the original, removed for safe-keeping but still used occasionally.

Visiting and Facilities

The church is open for worship.
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Church Website

Church Website:
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Sources and Further Information

CWGC (2016) Commonwealth War Graves Commission CWGC Unique File Reference Number: 01977C [Bibliography/Data]
Number of War Graves: 1
Church of England (2021) A Church Near You https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/12372/ [Digital Archive/Index]
View information on worship and access at this church
Church Buildings Council (2019) Church Bells 1 Bell [Archive/Index]
1 Bell