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| All Saints, Scaleby | ||
| All Saints Church | ||
| Scaleby Church | ||
| locality:- | Scaleby | |
| civil parish:- | Scaleby (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church | |
| coordinates:- | NY44696314 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4463 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY46 | |
| references:- | : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 17 1) placename:- All Saints Church |
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| 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 (Rectory) / Grave Yard" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Nurse 1918 |
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| 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. NUR1NY46.jpg "SCALEBY" item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of All Saints |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS / / / SCALEBY / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77952 / NY4469563138" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Church. Probably early C13 with tower of early C14 and restorations of 1827-28 and 1860-62. Large blocks of dressed red sandstone, probably from the nearby Roman Wall; graduated green slate roof with coped gables and cross finial. 3 storey square west tower, 5 bay nave/chancel. Fortified tower has walls 1.3 metres thick, with slit windows and chamfered plinth, rebuilt above string course before 1790, with battlemented parapet of 1827 and corner pinnacles of 1828: square bell chamber openings, existed before 1790. Nave/chancel has buttressed walls with pointed lancets. Recessed C19 east window, suggests an infilled arch of the demolished chancel. C19 porch and vestry cover original north and south entrances: porch has stone slate roof with coped gable and cross finials: original entrance has round arch with 2 continuous chamfers and hood mould projecting to either side of porch. Interior: C19 vaulted pine ceiling. C19 pews have panels of carved Gothic tracery with lectern and pulpit of similar details. White marble wall plaques to members of the Fawcett and Farrer families of Scaleby Castle and Scaleby Hall, all early C19. 3 early C20 stained glass windows. Bowl and stem font is dated 1707 with inscription MH, NB, WB, CG, CHURCH WARDENS. Free standing inscribed Roman Altar, probably from Birdoswald, has been reused in C14 with carvings on back and side of clerics (heads missing). Interior of round arch east entrance to tower has draw-bar hole. There is a bench mark on the south-west corner of the tower. See, Mrs J Palmer, Guide Book to All Saints Church Scaleby, 1972." |
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| evidence:- | old painting:- placename:- Scaleby Church |
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| source data:- | Painting, watercolour, Scaleby Church from the South West, All Saints Church, Scaleby,
Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1791. click to enlargePR1246.jpg Included in an album The Antiquities of the City of Carlisle. View of Scaleby Church from the south west with the graveyard in the foreground. inscribed at bottom centre:- "SCALEBY CHURCH from the S.W." signed at bottom left:- "R. Carlile. del." item:- Tullie House Museum : 1978.108.77.21 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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 CGC58.jpg Organ (taken 12.5.2017)  CGC59.jpg Memorial, Roland Fawcett born Scaleby Castle, 1807, d.1837. (taken 12.5.2017)  CGC60.jpg Coat of arms, Fawcett Family. (taken 12.5.2017)  CGC61.jpg A roman altar, re-used. (taken 12.5.2017) |
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 BOB54.jpg Coat of arms on the gravestone of James Graham of Fordsike, d.1741. (taken 31.8.2007)  BYO09.jpg Gate. (taken 14.6.2013)  BOB53.jpg (taken 31.8.2007) |
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| notes:- |
14th century church tower, fortified |
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| Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS::
ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustration |
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| dedication | ||
| person:- | : All Saints |
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| place:- | Scaleby / Carlisle Diocese | |
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