Christ Church, Glasson

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.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]

Christ Church, Glasson
Christ Church, Glasson, from the southeast
Christ Church, Glasson Location in the City of Lancaster district
OS grid reference	SD 448,559
Location	Glasson, Lancashire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	Christ Church, Glasson
History
Status	Parish church
Consecrated	29 June 1840
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	2 May 1968
Architect(s)	Edmund Sharpe Henry Paley
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1839
Completed	1932
Administration
Parish	Christ Church, Glasson
Deanery	Lancaster
Archdeaconry	Lancaster
Diocese	Blackburn
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Rev M. B. Roberts
Laity
Churchwarden(s)	Mrs E. Makinson Mr D. J. Stockdale
Parish administrator	Mrs M. Stockdale

History

Christ Church was built in 1839–40 and designed by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe.[3][4] 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.[5] The present chancel and the vestry were added in 1931–32, and were designed by Sharpe's successor Henry Paley of Austin and Paley.[6] The space under the west gallery was enclosed in 1988 to form a separate room.[7]

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.[2] 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.[8]

External features

The churchyard contains the war graves of two soldiers of World War I, and a soldier of World War II.[9]

See also

• Listed buildings in Thurnham, Lancashire
• List of architectural works by Edmund Sharpe
• List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1916–44)

References

Citations

1. Glasson, Christ Church, Church of England, retrieved 7 April 2012
2. Historic England, "Christ Church, Glasson Dock (1071725)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 7 April 2012
3. Hartwell & Pevsner 2009, p. 304.
4. Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 211.
5. Hughes 2010, pp. 134, 136.
6. Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 253.
7. Lancashire Churches: Glasson, Christ Church, Tony Boughen, archived from the original on 18 May 2010, retrieved 2 April 2010
8. 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.
9. 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.)