Kendal Parish Church is an Anglican Church in the Diocese of Carlisle. It is located on Kirkland near to the river at the south end of Kendal.
The church is a Grade I listed building. The description given by Historic England reads as follows;
"SD 5192 SE KENDAL KIRKLAND (East side)
11/79 Church of the Holy Trinity
24-4-51 G.V. I
Parish Church. Established by 1232 (date on indulgence issued for fabric repairs); later medieval additions. Comprehensive C19 restorations in Perpendicular style. Earlier masonry coursed, squared, rubble; later work snecked rubble. Chamfered plinths and stepped buttresses. Graduated slate roofs with gargoyles and pinnacles. Rectangular plan with double aisles; chancel and west tower incorporated internally. West porch; 1934 vestry adjoining north side not of interest. Eastern chapels of Bellingham, Parr, and Strickland families contain some fine tombs and memorials. Memorial by Flaxman on north wall; memorial to George Romney on west wall. One of widest medieval parish churches in Britain (103 ft). For detailed description, history, and plans see: J.F. Curwen "The Parish Church of Kendal" in Transactions of Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, Old Series Vol. XVI, pp.157-220; R.C.H.M. (1936), Westmorland, pp.119-122. Forms focus of churchyard group and major feature on riverside.
Listing NGR: SD5168992139"
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Kendal Parish Church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is one of the widest churches in the country with the capacity for a congregation of 1100 people.
The church dates from the early thirteenth century, although it is located on the site of a much earlier church that was recorded in the Domesday Book. The shaft of an Anglican Cross in the Parr Chapel is dated at approximately AD 850.
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"The earliest surviving parts of the building are nave pillars from the thirteenth century with a fifteenth century tower and further nave pillars of similar date.
As the town grew with the development of the wool trade after the Scottish Wars of Independence additional aisles were added to the church in the fifteenth and sixteenth century. This has resulted in one of the widest parish churches in the country. The five aisles give an internal width of over 100ft/30 metres and the internal character is of a simple, light and airy square space divided by lines of stone pillars. By the mid nineteenth century the church was in a very poor structural condition and it was extensively restored with significant elements of re-building 1850-52. However the character of the perpendicular architecture and the spaces were retained. Twentieth century alterations of restoring the Parr and Bellingham Chapels and bringing forward the main altar have introduced good quality work by local Arts and Crafts workers."
"There are early monuments in the Bellingham, Strickland and Parr Chapels, the latter being the chapel of the family of Katherine Parr, last wife of Henry VIII. There are a wealth of eighteenth and nineteenth century wall monuments including one to George Romney and some 20 designed by the highly regarded local architect Webster. There is Victorian stained glass and a modern sculpture by Josefina de Vasconcellos of the Family of Man."
"Classical pillars supporting exuberant, wrought iron gates date from 1822. In the churchyard between the gates and west front are a stone sundial and an 1896 memorial to Archdeacon Cooper in the form of a copy of the Irton Cross. These external features are in the ownership of the District Council."
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