St Mary with Holy Trinity, Ulverston
St Mary with Holy Trinity, Ulverston
Ulverston Parish Church is a Grade II* Church of England church on Church Walk, Ulverston, Cumbria, in the Diocese of Carlisle: a largely sixteenth-century town church recast by Paley and later by Austin and Paley, serving the parish of St Mary with Holy Trinity.
- Location
- Ulverston, Cumbria
- Country
- England
- County
- Cumbria
- City / town
- Ulverston
- Address
- Church Walk, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 7EN
- Postcode
- LA12 7EN
- Built
- C16 with reused C12 south doorway; enlarged 1804; restored 1864–66; chancel extended 1903–04
- Architect
- E G Paley (1864–66); Austin and Paley (chancel 1903–04; south aisle chapel 1923)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Diocese
- Carlisle
- Parish
- St Mary with Holy Trinity, Ulverston
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Gothic and Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Sandstone and limestone rubble with red sandstone dressings and slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SD 290 787
- Opening hours
- Open weekdays 9am to 1pm. Outside these hours please contact us.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access throughout
Overview
Historic England lists a parish church of the sixteenth century with a reused twelfth-century south doorway, restored and enlarged in 1804, extensively restored and partly rebuilt in 1864–66 by Paley, with the chancel extended in 1903–04 by Austin and Paley, who also refurnished the east end of the south aisle in 1923 as a war memorial chapel. The fabric is sandstone and limestone rubble with red sandstone dressings and slate roofs. The plan comprises a west tower, nave with clerestory, south aisle and south porch, a north aisle under a pitched roof, and a chancel. The three-stage tower has angle buttresses, an embattled parapet and a three-light Perpendicular west window. The south doorway is reset, with a round arch of cable ornament. Seven-bay arcades of 1804 have pointed chamfered arches on octagonal columns. The open timber roof has braced collar trusses alternating with king-posts.
The parish name records the union with Holy Trinity after that church closed. The church is open on weekdays in the morning, with level access throughout.