Reredos - Parish Church of St Andrew's - Coniston, Cumbria, UK
N 54° 22.132 W 003° 04.519
30U E 495106 N 6024566
A carved wooden reredos located in the Parish Church of St Andrew on Hawkshead Road in Coniston.
Waymark Code: WM15M74
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/20/2022
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The carved wooden reredos located in the Parish Church of St Andrew on Hawkshead Road in Coniston
The Parish Church of St Andrew is in the Diocese of Carlisle and located on Hawkshead Road in the centre of Coniston.
The Grade II Listed building was designed by J. Matson and was built in 1819. It is constructed of slate with ashlar dressings and slate roof. The building features a west tower with embattled parapet, clock and paired stone-louvred bell openings. (
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"The present church replaced an earlier church of 1586 built by William Le Fleming. The chancel and the low bays were added in 1891. The Baptistry West window of St Andrew has stained glass by Charles Kempe.
Many of the features in the Church worthy of mention refer back to the patrons and benefactors of Coniston – the Le Fleming family, who built Coniston Hall in 1270, and who have remained there until recent times, and the Barratt family who established themselves in Coniston in the 1820’s to develop the copper mines." (
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The reredos is mentioned in the Grade II listed description by Historic England as follows;
"Chancel has arches to vestry and organ loft and panelled east wall and reredos with blind tracery." 'The Holt family of Tent Lodge, a branch of the Liverpool ship-owning
family, presented the carved reredos at the Victorian Restoration.'
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