All Saints Church, Lockerbie

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All Saints Church, Lockerbie
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All Saints Church, Lockerbie, from the southwest
Coordinates: 55°07′23″N3°21′36″W / 55.123135°N 3.359920°W / 55.123135; -3.359920
LocationAshgrove Terrace, Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway
CountryScotland
Denomination Scottish Episcopal Church
History
Status Parish church
Dedication All Saints
Dedicated18 April 1903
Consecrated 1 November 1909
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationCategory B
Designated4 October 1988
Architect(s) Douglas and Minshull
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking 21 September 1901
Completed1903
Specifications
Materials Ashlar stone with red tile roof
Spire with Westmorland slate
Administration
Diocese Glasgow and Galloway

All Saints Church is in Ashgrove Terrace, Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is a Category B listed building [1] and an active Scottish Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway. [2]

Lockerbie town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, south-western Scotland. It lies approximately 75 miles (121 km) from Glasgow, and 20 miles (32 km) from the English border. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The town came to international attention in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight.

Dumfries and Galloway Council area of Scotland

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Listed building Protected historic structure in the United Kingdom

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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History

The church was built in 1903 and designed by Douglas and Minshull, a firm of architects from Chester, Cheshire, England. [3]

Chester City in Cheshire, England

Chester is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales. With a population of 79,645 in 2011, it is the most populous settlement of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 329,608 in 2011, and serves as the unitary authority's administrative headquarters. Chester is the second-largest settlement in Cheshire after Warrington.

Cheshire County of England

Cheshire is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south, and Flintshire and Wrexham County Borough in Wales to the west. Cheshire's county town is the City of Chester (118,200); the largest town is Warrington (209,700). Other major towns include Crewe (71,722), Ellesmere Port (55,715), Macclesfield (52,044), Runcorn (61,789), Widnes (61,464) and Winsford (32,610), Northwich (19,924)

Architecture

All Saints Church is built in ashlar stone with a red tile roof. Its plan consists of a low nave with aisles, a higher chancel with a canted end, a south porch and a tower at the west end. The tower has a broach spire with Westmorland slates. The stained glass includes a memorial window by Morris & Co. [1]

Ashlar Finely dressed stone and associated masonry

Ashlar is finely dressed stone, either an individual stone that was worked until squared or the structure built from it. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitruvius as opus isodomum, or less frequently trapezoidal. Precisely cut "on all faces adjacent to those of other stones", ashlar is capable of very thin joints between blocks, and the visible face of the stone may be quarry-faced or feature a variety of treatments: tooled, smoothly polished or rendered with another material for decorative effect.

Nave main body of a church

The nave is the central part of a church, stretching from the main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type building, the strict definition of the term "nave" is restricted to the central aisle. In a broader, more colloquial sense, the nave includes all areas available for the lay worshippers, including the side-aisles and transepts. Either way, the nave is distinct from the area reserved for the choir and clergy.

Aisle architectural element

An aisle is, in general (common), a space for walking with rows of seats on both sides or with rows of seats on one side and a wall on the other. Aisles can be seen in airplanes, certain types of buildings, such as churches, cathedrals, synagogues, meeting halls, parliaments and legislatures, courtrooms, theatres, and in certain types of passenger vehicles. Their floors may be flat or, as in theatres, stepped upwards from a stage.

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References

  1. 1 2 Historic Environment Scotland, "Ashgrove Terrace, All Saints Episcopal Church  (Category B) (LB37558)" , retrieved 20 March 2019
  2. ↑ Church Details, The United Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway, archived from the original on 8 January 2010, retrieved 11 June 2009
  3. ↑ Hubbard, Edward (1991), The Work of John Douglas, London: The Victorian Society, p. 274, ISBN   0-901657-16-6
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