St James, Tebay
St James, Tebay
St James’s is a Grade II parish church on Church Street, Tebay, Cumbria, in the Diocese of Carlisle and the parish of Orton with Tebay.
- Location
- Tebay, Cumbria
- Country
- England
- County
- Cumbria
- City / town
- Tebay
- Address
- Church Street, Tebay, Cumbria, CA10 3SP
- Postcode
- CA10 3SP
- Built
- 1878–80
- Consecrated
- 20 July 1880
- Architect
- C J Ferguson
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- James
- Diocese
- Carlisle
- Parish
- Orton with Tebay
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Rock-faced snecked granite (Shap granite) with dressed-stone details; graduated slate roofs
- Grid reference
- NY 616 044
- Opening hours
- Open 10am to 4pm daily. If closed, details for opening up are posted on the door.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England lists a parish church completed in 1880 to designs by C. J. Ferguson, a pupil of George Gilbert Scott. Until the mid-nineteenth century Tebay was a hamlet in Orton parish. After the railway arrived in 1846 the population grew; the Bishop of Carlisle and the London and North Western Railway Company supported a separate ecclesiastical parish. Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle, consecrated the church on 20 July 1880.
The fabric is rock-faced snecked granite with dressed-stone details and graduated slate roofs, built on a sloping site: an aisleless nave and chancel, a two-storey north porch, an apsidal western baptistry and a three-stage round bell turret with conical spire. The interior has polychrome brick and a wide pointed chancel arch. Fittings include a 1930 polygonal granite pulpit and a tapered cylindrical granite font. Early twentieth-century glass is by T. Curtis of Ward and Hughes, including a First World War window, and by Abbott and Co. of Lancaster.