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Church in Lancashire, England
St Mary's Church, Borwick St Mary's Church, Borwick, from the northwest
St Mary's Church, Borwick
Location in the City of Lancaster district
54°09′16″N 2°43′18″W / 54.1544°N 2.7216°W / 54.1544; -2.7216 OS grid reference SD 530,734 Location Borwick , Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Mary, Borwick Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 5 September 2002 Architect(s) Paley, Austin and Paley Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1894 Completed 1896 Materials Stone, tiled roofs Province York Diocese Blackburn Archdeaconry Lancaster Deanery Tunstall Parish St Oswald, Warton Vicar(s) Revd Damian Michael Porter Reader(s) Dr Margaret Coles Churchwarden(s) Ron Ogden, Sally Rothwell Parish administrator Linda Gardner
St Mary's Church is located to the north of the village of Borwick , Lancashire , England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn . Its benefice is united with those of St Oswald, Warton , and St John the Evangelist, Yealand Conyers .[ 1] National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building .[ 2]
The church was built in 1894–96 for William Sharp of Linden Hall in memory of his wife who had died in 1889. It was designed by the Lancaster firm of architects, Paley, Austin and Paley . The church was consecrated on 24 June 1896.[ 2] [ 3]
St Mary's is constructed in rubble stone with ashlar dressings, and has tiled roofs. Its plan is simple and consists of a nave with a north porch, and a chancel with a south vestry . On the west gable is a small bellcote . Its architectural style is Gothic Revival . At the corners of the church are diagonal stepped buttresses rising to crocketed finials . On the north side of the nave are two three-light windows, with a two-light window in the north wall of the chancel. The east window has three lights. On the south side of the nave are three three-light windows.[ 2] Perpendicular -style tracery .[ 4] mullioned window.[ 2]
Inside the church are a Perpendicular-style reredos , an octagonal font , a brass lectern , and a brass chandelier .[ 2] manual organ was installed in 1964, having been moved from a Congregational church in Warrington ; it was made by Hall of Kendal . Before installation it had been overhauled by Harrison and Harrison . It was overhauled again in 2005 by David Wells of Liverpool .[ 5]
^ St Mary, Borwick Church of England , retrieved 6 December 2011 ^ a b c d e Historic England , "Church of St Mary, Borwick (1272423)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 6 December 2011 ^ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin , Swindon: English Heritage , p. 241, 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 , p. 167, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9 ^ "NPOR [G00016]" , National Pipe Organ Register British Institute of Organ Studies , retrieved 30 June 2020
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