Jesus Church, Troutbeck
Jesus Church, Troutbeck
Jesus Church is a Grade II* parish church on the A592 at Troutbeck, Cumbria, in the Diocese of Carlisle: one of only two English churches dedicated as Jesus Church, with a 1736 tower and a Morris & Co east window.
- Location
- Troutbeck, Cumbria
- Country
- England
- County
- Cumbria
- City / town
- Troutbeck
- Address
- Patterdale Road, Troutbeck, Cumbria, LA23 1PE
- Postcode
- LA23 1PE
- Built
- Parish church of 1562; west tower 1736; remodelled mid C19
- Consecrated
- 1562 (said)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Jesus
- Diocese
- Carlisle
- Parish
- Troutbeck Jesus Church
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Sixteenth-century fabric with an eighteenth-century vernacular tower and plain C19 Gothic exterior
- Materials
- Slate-stone rubble with freestone dressings; slate roof
- Grid reference
- NY 413 028
- Opening hours
- Open daily, dawn until dusk.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England lists a parish church of 1562 with a tower of 1736, remodelled in the mid nineteenth century. Materials are slate-stone rubble with freestone dressings and a slate roof. The plan is nave and chancel under a single roof, with a three-stage unbuttressed west tower and embattled parapet. The main body is sixteenth-century fabric given a plain nineteenth-century Gothic exterior, with six pointed windows to the south, seven to the north, and a five-light Perpendicular east window. Wikipedia notes a church on the site by 1506; Co-Curate records consecration in 1562.
The interior has a west gallery, mid-nineteenth-century benches, and a shallow octagonal font. The five-light east window of 1873 is Pre-Raphaelite glass by William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Ford Madox Brown, depicting scenes from the life of Jesus. The church is open daily from dawn until dusk, with level access to the main areas.