Preston Patrick: St Gregory’s (St Patrick’s) Church

This church was rebuilt in 1852 by Sharpe and Paley, ¹ and the chancel in 1892. See Thomas Machell’s sketch for the way the chapel looked in the 1680s/1690s. The striking situation on top of the hill is however the same as when Fox visited the original chapel at the invitation of Thomas Taylor, and the twelve-year-old Thomas Camm was convinced. Hay harvest in progress.

Image © Meg Twycross, 24 June 2009

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1.    In 1850, ‘Messrs. Sharpe and Paley reported upon the then church, which was supposed to have been dedicated to St. Gregory, as follows:– “The Chapel appears from the character of its architecture to have been erected about the time of Henry VII, the south and east walls being the only portions that have remained in their original condition.” In 1852 a new church was erected on the old site at a cost of about £1400. It was reopened on 28 November, 1852. In 1892 the Chancel was rebuilt by Miss Keighley. The ecclesiastical parish was formed 3 March, 1873’. From ‘Supplementary Records: Preston Patrick’, Records relating to the Barony of Kendale: volume 3 (1926), 274-7: URL www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49382.     Return