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| Cowmire Hall, Crosthwaite and Lyth | ||
| Cowmire Hall | ||
| Cawmire Hall | ||
| Comer Hall | ||
| civil parish:- | Crosthwaite and Lyth (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | SD42738872 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4288 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD48 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 37 16) placename:- Cowmire Hill |
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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. |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s placename:- Cowmire Hall |
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| source data:- | Photograph, Cowmire Hall, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897. click to enlargeHB0114.jpg Vol.2 no.114 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. ms at bottom:- "114. Cowmire Hall. Heversham. K." item:- Armitt Library : 1958.3166.8 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s placename:- Cowmire Hall item:- roof slate |
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| source data:- | Photograph, Cowmire Hall, the Peel Tower, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland, by Herbert
Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897. click to enlargeHB0115.jpg Vol.2 no.115 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. ms at bottom:- "115. Cowmire Hall. The Peel Tower. Heversham. K." item:- Armitt Library : 1958.3166.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936 placename:- Cowmire Hall |
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| source data:- | Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Cowmire Hall Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland,
scale about 1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England,
London, 1936. click to enlargeHMW065.jpg On p.91 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. printed, upper right "COWMIRE HALL / CROSTHWAITE / AND LYTH" RCHME no. Wmd, Crosthwaite and Lyth 3 item:- Armitt Library : A745.65 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Cowmire Hall |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "COWMIRE HALL AND WALL RUNNING APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES TO EAST, WITH GATE PIERS / / / CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 77089 / SD4275188713" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "OUTBUILDINGS TO WEST AND NORTH OF COWMIRE HALL / / / CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 77090 / SD4272888736" |
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| hearsay:- |
17th century house enclosing a pele tower. |
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| Inscription at the bottom of an east window, in Latin:- |
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| "Pray for the souls of Miles Brigg and of Johana his wife benefactors of this Church" |
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| "Wilm Brigg goeth to london upon tusday XIth day of Aprill God protect hym" |
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| notes:- |
includes a 15th century tower |
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| Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS::
ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustrations |
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| Palmer, J H & McIntire, W T (ed): 1945: Historic Farmhouses in and around Westmorland:
Westmorland Gazette (Kendal, Westmorland) |
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