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All Saints, Culgaith
All Saints Church
Culgaith Church
locality:-   Culgaith
civil parish:-   Culgaith (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY61032966
1Km square:-   NY6129
10Km square:-   NY62
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BMF26.jpg (taken 2.6.2006)  
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BWN24.jpg (taken 25.5.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 59 4) 
placename:-  All Saints Church
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"All Saints Church (Perpl. Curacy) / Grave Yard / Sun Dial"

evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Culgaith Chaple
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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MD10NY62.jpg
"Culgaith Chaple"
Circle. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Nurse 1918
source data:-   Map, The Diocese of Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Rev Euston J Nurse, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, 11 English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 2nd edn 1939.
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NUR1NY63.jpg
"CULGAITH"
Held in plurality with Kirkland. 
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

 notes about bells

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of All Saints
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS / / B6412 / CULGAITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73147 / NY6103229671"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church, dated 1756 but extensively restored in C19. Sandstone blocks with margined quoins on chamfered plinth; moulded eaves. Graduated slate roofs with stone-flagged eaves; stone copings and kneelers with apex cross to east and bellcote to west. Cruciform plan with C19 porch. East window and windows in transept end walls are C19, c1896; C18 windows are plain with pointed heads. West end incorporates C15 window; panel above, dated 1756, is probably C19 replacement. Internally, two C18 columns with moulded capitals and bases on 3 1/2 ft high plinth blocks separate each transept arm from the nave. The C18 box pews were broken up and used to line the walls in the nave and transept; woodwork in chancel is c1936."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCHYARD WALLS, GATE PIERS, RAILINGS AND GATE TO ALL SAINTS CHURCH / / B6412 / CULGAITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73148 / NY6101029663"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"C18 churchyard wall of squared, snecked rubble with segmental coping incorporates dated stone in west side: 1756. In the v... (rest of inscription badly weathered). C19 entrance in north-west corner has low walls of sandstone blocks with chamfered coping; square gate piers have moulded capitals with pyramidal tops. Cast iron gate and railings have knopped standards and finials."

 sundial


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BRT70.jpg  Harmonium
(taken 22.10.2009)  
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BRT71.jpg  Harmonium, makers name:--
"Estey Organ Co Brattleboro [ ]t U.S.A." (taken 22.10.2009)  
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BRT72.jpg  Harmonium, suppliers name:-
"Devonshire St. B. SCOTT &SON, CARLISLE." (taken 22.10.2009)  
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BRT73.jpg  Electronic organ.
(taken 22.10.2009)  
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BWN26.jpg  Charity for bread, Daniel Dover, died 1787.
(taken 22.10.2009)  
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BWN25.jpg  Memorial to Thomas Richardson died 1858, and Arthur Hutchinson, professor of mineralogy at Cambridge, died 1937.
(taken 22.10.2009)  
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CGM28.jpg  Gate piers, etc
(taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM29.jpg  Railings
(taken 8.9.2017)  
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CGM30.jpg  Inscription in west wal:-
"1756 / In the year / Of our Lord" (taken 8.9.2017)  
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BNT24.jpg (taken 30.5.2007)  

dedication
person:-    : All Saints
place:-   Culgaith / Carlisle Diocese

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