Christ Church is in the village of
Glasson ,
Lancashire , England. It is an active
Anglican parish church in the deanery of Lancaster and Morecambe, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the
diocese of Blackburn . Its
benefice is combined with those of
St Michael, Cockerham , and
St Luke, Winmarleigh . The church is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II
listed building .
History
Christ Church was built in 1839–40 and designed by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe . It was consecrated on 29 June 1840 by the Bishop of Chester . The original chancel was "short" and "stubby", and had a triple stepped lancet east window. The present chancel and the vestry were added in 1931–32, and were designed by Sharpe's successor Henry Paley of Austin and Paley . The space under the west gallery was enclosed in 1988 to form a separate room.
Architecture
The church is constructed in sandstone rubble with a slate roof. Its plan consists of a nave with a chancel at a lower level. The walls of the nave are divided by buttresses into four bays ; the westernmost bays have a single lancet window, while the other three bays contain triple stepped lancets. The chancel is divided into two bays with two-light windows. The east window is a triple stepped lancet. The west end contains an arched doorway flanked by lancet windows and with another lancet above, angle buttresses; on the gable is a bellcote . Inside the church is a west gallery. The east window contains stained glass dating from 1979 by Joseph Fisher of Shrigley and Hunt . The stained glass elsewhere dates from the 19th century; some of this was designed by Carl Almquist and E. H. Jewitt of Shrigley and Hunt.
External features
The churchyard contains the war graves of two soldiers of World War I , and a soldier of World War II .
See also
References
Citations
^ Glasson, Christ Church , Church of England , retrieved 7 April 2012
^ Historic England , "Christ Church, Glasson Dock (1071725)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 7 April 2012
^ Brandwood et al. 2012 , p. 211.
^ Brandwood et al. 2012 , p. 253.
^ Lancashire Churches: Glasson, Christ Church , Tony Boughen, archived from the original on 18 May 2010, retrieved 2 April 2010
^ Waters, William (2003). Stained Glass from Shrigley & Hunt of Lancaster and London . Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster. p. 74. ISBN 1862201404 . Retrieved 18 July 2020 .
^ GLASSON (CHRIST CHURCH) CHURCHYARD , Commonwealth War Graves Commission , retrieved 13 February 2013
Sources
Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin , Swindon: English Heritage , ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North , The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press , ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster , John M. Hughes Although this is self-published, it is a scholarly work and fully referenced throughout. (As of 2011 it is available only as a CD.)
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