Left, St Mary’s, Mallerstang. The SPAB is concerned that proposals for an extension to this ancient building would nearly double its size, and spoil its traditional setting.
Below, Ripon Cathedral’s West Front. How wise are plans to bring its ancient doors back into heavy use?
already taken place with the Diocesan Advisory Committee, Eden District Council and English Heritage. We expressed regret that the Society was not also consulted by the church at an earlier stage as we felt that our comments would have beneficially contributed to the development of the proposed scheme. The church sits within its own graveyard and
has an important relationship with the open rural landscape. Therefore, it will be important that the extension does not compete with the existing church building. The proposed new building is to extend perpendicular from the north side of the church, with a rectangular plan similar in size to the existing church and a duo pitch slate roof with stonewalls to match the existing church. The Development Plan points towards St
Patrick’s church in Patterdale as a similar type of church extension. Whilst we agreed that St Patrick’s appeared to have been successfully extended we noted that the extension is well shielded by trees and vegetation, tucked discreetly to the rear of the church and is smaller in scale to the church. In contrast, the proposed extension to St Mary’s church will be exposed in its open rural location and is of a similar size and scale to the existing church. Therefore we felt that comparing with St Patrick’s extension was not appropriate in this instance. We have questioned whether a number of
options have been considered in developing the current design, including providing an extension alongside the existing church rather than at right angles or providing a stand-alone building within the graveyard. We were concerned that the right-angle extension might look too suburban and that a
parallel extension might look less obtrusive in its open rural setting. We have also suggested that a scaled-down extension could achieve the space needed.
Naomi Hatton Ripon Cathedral
In accordance with the Cathedrals Fabric Commission’s request that the SPAB should be notified of detailed repair work to the 17th- century timberWest Front doors at Ripon Cathedral, we received this information from
the CathedralArchitect. The Society’s Guardians Committee subsequently reviewed it. There are threeWest Doors – one central
larger door, with a smaller, centrally-set wicket door and a smaller door to the north and south. All the doors are made of oak, with two leaves hung on hinges and pintles set into the stonework. The doors are constructed of vertical timber boards joined by tongue and groove with a frame and diagonal lattice arrangement of timber
battens.Metal studs adorn the outside of each door, in a decorative fashion.
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