Church of St Aidan, Carlisle
Description: Church of St Aidan
Grade: II
Date Listed: 11 April 1994
English Heritage Building ID: 386907
OS Grid Reference: NY4106255935
OS Grid Coordinates: 341062, 555935
Latitude/Longitude: 54.8947, -2.9205
Location: St Aidans Road, Carlisle, Cumbria CA1 1JY
Locality: Carlisle
Local Authority: Carlisle
County: Cumbria
Country: England
Postcode: CA1 1JY
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Listing Text
CARLISLE
NY4155 WARWICK ROAD
671-1/11/307 (North side)
01/06/49 Church of St Aidan
GV II
Church of England church. 1899 (dated on foundation stone),
completed 1902, by CJ Ferguson. Quarry-faced red sandstone on
chamfered plinth with stepped buttresses, string course, eaves
cornice and solid parapets on aisles. Graduated greenslate
roofs with coped gables and cross finial.
PLAN: 6-bay nave/chancel under uninterrupted roof; west and
south porches, aisles, west open bellcote, north-east vestry
and south morning chapel.
EXTERIOR: west lean-to porch has central west-gable; north and
south elliptical-arched doorways; plate tracery west window
above. Aisles have 3-light traceried windows. Clerestory
3-light flat-arched windows. South chapel has low flat porch
with pointed-arched door and 3-light flat-arched window; right
canted turret; higher-level chapel windows which are 2-lights
with cusped heads. 5-light plate tracery east window. North
vestry projects at an angle from the north-east corner and
joins with the Church Hall (qv). Beneath the east window is
the datestone and set on a girder on the north wall of the
chancel is a bronze bell, formerly at Highmoor House, Wigton,
inscribed with bell founders name.
INTERIOR: early C20 fixtures and fittings; open timber roof.
Pointed arches of red sandstone on alternating round and
octagonal piers, one pier inscribed with subscribers names and
amounts subscribed towards building cost. Further inscription
on west wall THE TWO BELLS THE GIFT OF MRS BLANSHARD OF
CAMERTON HALL WERE FIRST RUNG ON 1 JANUARY 1900 TO USHER IN
THE NEW CENTURY.
C20 stained glass in 2 aisles and in east window. Octagonal
font with carved tracery panels.
Original designs for church are in Cumbria County Record
Office, Ca/E4/13166, approved 12 May 1899. A photograph in the
Cumberland News (1982) shows the laying of the foundation
stone on 8 September 1899.
(Cumberland News: 8 March 1982).
Listing NGR: NY4106255935
Source: English Heritage
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