Allonby: Christ Church

Name:
Allonby: Christ Church
Record Type:
Church
Church code:
607343
Diocese:
Carlisle
Archdeaconry:
West cumberland
Parish:
Allonby

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 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

Exterior image of 607343 Allonby Christ Church
Caption:
Exterior image of 607343 Allonby Christ Church
Description:
Photograph of the exterior of Christ Church Allonby taken 21 January 2015
Year / Date:
2015
Copyright:
Richard Rogerson
Originator:
Richard Rogerson

Summary Description

Unusually Christ Church retains its essentially simple Georgian character in it’s entirety from the classical detailing of the bell-cote, gable kneelers and copings, panelled entrance doors and pews with wood grained painted finish. Externally the walls are of hammer dressed random coursed red sandstone with v-jointed quoins and bow topped windows with projecting jambs, cills and quadrant arch stones, springers and key stones. At the west end the iron railings remain between their stone pillars. In plan form the church has a north and south transept with a very shallow sanctuary. The pews to the choir stalls are of teak. There is a fine marble memorial to Captain Joseph Huddart, F.R.S. Hydrographer, chart maker, inventor and entrepreneur, noted for his work in charting the coasts of Sumatra and St. Georges Chanel and for his considerable technical inventions. This plaque by Fontano of Carara will have been re-set from the earlier church of 1744 on the same site. The pitched roofed building, set rather incongruously, in the angle between the North Transept and the Nave north wall is the former Sunday School which accommodates, Vestry, School room with kitchen facilities, toilets and the boiler room.

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

Richard Rogerson (2015) Exterior image of 607343 Allonby Christ Church [Digital Archive/Graphic material]
Exterior image of 607343 Allonby Christ Church
CWGC (2016) Commonwealth War Graves Commission CWGC Unique File Reference Number: 2065 [Bibliography/Data]
Number of War Graves: 2
Church of England (2021) A Church Near You https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/12510/ [Digital Archive/Index]
View information on worship and access at this church
Church Buildings Council (2019) Church Bells 1 Bell [Archive/Index]
1 Bell