Published at 16:11, Monday, 13 August 2012

THE Memories Page look (July 28) at the work in South Cumbria by the major Lancaster design firm of Paley and Austin prompted Barrow’s Roy Chatfield to make a visit with his camera.

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He went to the parish church of St Peter at Field Broughton, near Cartmel, which was built in the decorated style of architecture and consecrated in 1894.

The site has a much longer history as there was a chapel there, also to St Peter, which was consecrated by Samuel Peploe, Bishop of Chester, on June 30 in 1745.

The land had been left in the will of Myles Burn, of Field Broughton – with the stipulation that the vicar also had to serve as a schoolmaster.

By 1880 the chapel and vicarage were said to be in a poor state of repair.

The foundation stone of the present Paley and Austin church was laid on May 10 in 1892 by Harriet Margaret Hibbert, of Broughton Grove, as a memorial to her husband.

The altar has a gilded oak cross made from the timbers of the old chapel

The first to take charge of the new building was the Reverend Henry Ransome.

St Peter’s Church has three fonts.

The oldest and smallest, at just 18 inches, was used in the 1745 chapel.

A second font was presented by the Barker family of Broughton Lodge and carved on its faces are the bull of St Matthew, the lion of St Mark, the angel of St Luke and the eagle of St John.

The larger font, near the church door, was installed as part of the design for the new building and is made of Dent fossil marble.

Foster and Andrews, of Hull, built the church organ.

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