Underbarrow: All Saints

Name:
Underbarrow: All Saints
Record Type:
Church
Church code:
607237
Diocese:
Carlisle
Archdeaconry:
Westmorland & Furness
Parish:
Underbarrow with Helsington

Statutory Designation Information

Listed Building?
This is a Grade II Listed Building
View more information about this Listed Building on the National Heritage List for England web site
Scheduled Monument?
There is no Scheduled Monument within the curtilage or precinct

National Park

The church is in the following National Park: Lake District 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

Exterior image of 607237 Underbarrow All Saints
Caption:
Exterior image of 607237 Underbarrow All Saints
Description:
Photograph of the exterior of All Saints church Underbarrow taken 16 February 2015
Year / Date:
2015
Copyright:
Basher Eyre
Originator:
Basher Eyre

Summary Description

Externally, a curious sense of compression – the verticals all seem exaggerated (walls, windows, spirelet, steep roof; the nave, foreshortened by the transepts), together giving the impression of a church squeezed into a tight space (and/or budget). Pevsner describes the design as ‘naughty’; it certainly packs a variety of interpretations of ‘free early English’ onto a limited canvas. The polygonal east apse is crowded externally with dormers and hips; the interior is more successfully integrated into the chancel, perhaps with a calmer colour scheme than the original. The Shrigley and Hunt north east window of 1955 is much the best, though the design of the original 1869 east window (John Hardman of Birmingham) has some merit. Only the wall-mounted ‘Library Box’ dated 1793 and possibly the bell provide hints of the existence of the earlier churches of 1547 and 1708.

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

Basher Eyre (2015) Exterior image of 607237 Underbarrow All Saints [Digital Archive/Graphic material]
Exterior image of 607237 Underbarrow All Saints
Alexander P Kapp (2010) Interior image of 607237 Underbarrow All Saints [Digital Archive/Graphic material]
Interior image of 607237 Underbarrow All Saints
Church of England (2021) A Church Near You https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/12393/ [Digital Archive/Index]
View information on worship and access at this church
ICBS (1817-1989) Incorporated Church Building Society Archive https://images.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/luna/servlet/detail/LPLIBLPL~34~34~116312~117363 [Archive/Graphic material]

Ground plan

ICBS File Number - 06770

Coverage - 1868

Created by BINTLEY, Joseph: fl. 1868-1877 of Westmoreland

Church Buildings Council (2019) Church Bells 1 Bell [Archive/Index]
1 Bell