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All Saints, Underbarrow
All Saints Church
Underbarrow Church
locality:-   Underbarrow
civil parish:-   Underbarrow and Bradleyfield (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD46329263
1Km square:-   SD4692
10Km square:-   SD49
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BJU91.jpg (taken 12.9.2005)  
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CBQ42.jpg (taken 12.9.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 6) 
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.
"Church (Per Curacy) / Grave Yard"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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J5SD49SE.jpg
church 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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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NUR1SD49.jpg
"UNDERBARROW"
United benefice with Helsington, but separate parish. 
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of All Saints
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS / / / UNDERBARROW AND BRADLEYFIELD / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75292 / SD4632392632"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church of All Saints, 1869, on site of earlier church. Free Early English with polygonal apse and octagonal tower over doorway. Rubble walls brought to courses with limestone and sandstone quoins and dressings, slate voussoirs to windows, slate roof with stone ridge. Tower in 3 stages surmounted by small spire with weathercock. Doorway has pointed arch with dog-tooth moulding supported on two red sandstone columns. Windows in a variety of Early English styles with label moulds and end stops, some in the form of carved heads. West window includes 6-pointed star. Interior simple, without aisles. Barrel vaulted ceiling, pitch pine pews, font and pulpit all C19. See also RCHM p.230."

incumbents:-  
Sweyn  1220 -  
John  1230 - 1389 ?? 
Gervase  1230 - 1389 ?? 
Kirkeby, Ellis de  1390 -  
Tiddiman, Robert  1517 -  
Staynbank, Thomas  1550 - 1569 ?? 
Birkhead, John  1573 -  
Rowlandson, Arthur  1643 -  
Wilson, Thomas  1695 -  
Langhorn, William  1735 -  
Jackson, John  1761 -  
Hervey, Thomas  1766 -  
Hervey, Thomas jnr  1806 -  
Taylor, Robert  1821 -  
Graves, John  1839 -  
Graves, John jnr  1866 -  
Snow, Thomas  1875 -  
McConnel, John  1893 -  


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BSL85.jpg  Organ, by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal, 1897.
(taken 9.4.2010)  
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BSL86.jpg  Organ, by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal, 1897
(taken 9.4.2010)  
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BNC29.jpg  Organ pipes.
(taken 15.12.2006)  
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BVT53.jpg  Banner.
(taken 23.12.2011)  
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CBQ44.jpg  Font.
(taken 12.9.2014)  
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BNC30.jpg  The Library Box, 1793, probably from the school that onced adjoined the church, then used in Underbarrow School 1859-1985.
(taken 15.12.2006)  
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CBQ43.jpg  Oil lamp; used on special occasions, the church is electrified.
(taken 12.9.2014)  
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CBQ33.jpg  Weathervane.
(taken 12.9.2014)  
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CBQ45.jpg  Gate.
(taken 12.9.2014)  
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CBQ46.jpg  Stile.
(taken 12.9.2014)  

MN photo:-  
The church has boards for hymn numbers up by the organ and down the sides of the nave.

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CBQ34.jpg (taken 12.9.2014)  
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CBQ35.jpg (taken 12.9.2014)  
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CBQ36.jpg (taken 12.9.2014)  
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CBQ37.jpg (taken 12.9.2014)  

notes:-  
Churches were built here in 1547, 1708, and 1869. The architect of the present church, was Joseph Bentley, Kendal.
the spire is secured in place by a heavy iron ball suspended by a chain.

: : church leaflet

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

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