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Old Rectory, Great Asby
Old Rectory
civil parish:-   Asby (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY68041315
1Km square:-   NY6813
10Km square:-   NY61
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BWZ74.jpg (taken 3.8.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 22 3) 
placename:-  Rectory, The
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.

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Asby Rectory
source data:-   Photograph, Asby Rectory, Great Asby, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
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HB0014.jpg
Vol.1 no.14 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "14. / Asby Rectory. Asby. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.14
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Rectory, The
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, The Rectory Asby, ie Old Rectory, Great Asby, Asby, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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HMW011.jpg
On p.15 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, upper right  "THE RECTORY, ASBY"
RCHME no. Wmd, Asby 4 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.11
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Old Rectory
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"OLD RECTORY / / / ASBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 73248 / NY6804713154"

hearsay:-  
The rectory has the remains of a pele tower built 14th century. Lady Anne Clifford was given shelter at the rectory from a storm, in thanks she gave the rector a door lock - this is now in the church.

notes:-  
14th century tower incorporated in house

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustration

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