St Mary's Church, Gosforth
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West end of St Mary's Church, Gosforth
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 St Mary's Church, Gosforth
Location in Cumbria
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| 54°25′09″N 3°25′53″W / 54.4192°N 3.4314°WCoordinates: 54°25′09″N 3°25′53″W / 54.4192°N 3.4314°W | |
| OS grid reference | NY 072 036 |
| Location | Gosforth, Cumbria |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | achurchnearyou |
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| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade I |
| Designated | 9 March 1967 |
| Architect(s) | C. J. Ferguson |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Norman, Gothic Revival |
| Completed | 1899 |
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| Materials | Stone, slate roofs |
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| Parish | Gosforth |
| Deanery | Calder |
| Archdeaconry | West Cumberland |
| Diocese | Carlisle |
| Province | York |
| Clergy | |
| Priest(s) | Revd John Riley |
St Mary's Church in the village of Gosforth, Cumbria, England, is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of St Olaf, Wasdale Head, and St Michael, Nether Wasdale. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It is associated with "a unique Viking-age assemblage" of carved stones.
This has been a Christian site since the 8th century. The oldest fabric in the present church dates from the 12th century. The church was reconstructed in 1789, but most of the fabric currently present is the result of a virtual rebuilding by C. J. Ferguson between 1896 and 1899.
St Mary's is constructed in stone with a slate roof. Its plan consists of a nave, a north aisle, a south porch, a chancel and north vestries. The 19th-century rebuilding is in Decorated style. At the west end is a corbelled-out bellcote. The gabled porch leads to the south door, to the right of which is a blocked Norman doorway, formerly on the north side of the church. There is a monument dated 1834 on the exterior of the north wall of the chancel.
Inside the church is a four-bay north arcade, consisting of pointed arches carried on columns with octagonal capitals. The 14th-century chancel arch is set on richly carved Norman capitals.
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