St Gregory's Church, Vale of Lune

St Gregory's was built by the Upton family of Ingmire Hall in the 1860s. The London and North Western Railway was at that time constructing the Ingleton Branch Line, and the company sent a scripture reader to minister to the navvies building the railway.

The church is attached to a cottage. It is constructed in random rubble mixed stone with red sandstone quoins and a slate roof. The porch is built in rubble with yellow sandstone dressings and quoins. The roof is in slate, and on it stands a long wooden lantern, glazed with five lights and with a hip roof. The plan of the church consists of a nave on a north–south axis, with a porch on the north, and a chancel acting as a cross-wing on the south. On the north gable is a single bellcote containing a bell. The doorway to the porch is on the west side, over which is a small gable containing the Ingmire Hall cross. On the north side of the porch is a small rectangular window, over which is a…