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at the cost of £6000. It is one hundred and
forty-eight feet long, and thirty-seven broad, having the
principal entrance ornamented by a receding balcony, fronted
with columns and pilasters of the Ionic order, supporting a
pediment. A handsome circular lantern gives light to the
billiard-room, besides which, are a library, news-room, and
elegant ball-room. The church, dedicated to the Holy
Trinity, stands in the township of Kirkland; it is one
hundred and eighty feet long, and ninety-nine feet broad,
consisting of five aisles, divided by arches, which spring
from eight pillars. The tower, seventy-two feet in height,
is very strong, and contains a peel of ten bells. In the
church are four chapels, three of which belonged to the
Parrs, Stricklands, and Bellinghams; the other is the proper
choir of the church, though called the Alderman's choir,
because they were wont to sit there. The Stricklands of
Sizergh Hall still use their chapel as a burial-place, and
several of the family lie entombed there under a rich marble
monument. This church was given by Ivo de Talebois to St.
Mary's Abbey, York, and granted, after the dissolution, by
Queen Mary, to Trinity College, Cambridge, to which the
patronage, great tithes, tithes of wool and lamb, still
belong. Saint George's chapel fronts the Market-place and
Strickland-gate. Another chapel, in the lancet style, has
been erected and consecrated also by the present bishop of
the diocese.
Kendal was governed by a corporation formerly
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