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| Dentdale Methodist Church, Dent | ||
| Dentdale Methodist Church | ||
| Loneing Meeting House | ||
| locality:- | Dent | |
| civil parish:- | Dent (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | methodist chapel | |
| locality type:- | chapel | |
| locality type:- | meeting house (once) | |
| locality type:- | quaker meeting (once) | |
| coordinates:- | SD70338708 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7087 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD78 | |
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 BJW24.jpg Plaque:- "WESLEYAN / 1834 / CHAPEL" (taken 23.9.2005)  BJW25.jpg Wall clock by:- "JACKSON &SON / SEDBERGH" (taken 23.9.2005) |
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| evidence:- | text:- placename:- Dent Meeting House |
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| source data:- | : : Quaker Administrative History "DENT, Yorks WR, after 1974 Cumbr" "Meeting house in Dent Town, SD703871" "see LEAYEAT" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Backhouse 1773 placename:- Dent meeting |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Map of the Meetings belonging to
the Quarterly Meetings of Lancaster, Westmorland, Cumberland,
Northumberland, Durham and York, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch,
by James Backhouse, engraved by Thomas Kitchin, published by
James Backhouse, Darlington, Durham, 1773. BKH2Sdbr.jpg labelled:- "Dent / 6.4" meeting day Wednesday nearby market day Friday item:- private collection : 224 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | text:- Butler 1978 placename:- Dent Meeting House placename:- Loneing Meeting House |
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| source data:- | Book, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties by David M
Butler, published by the Friends Historical Society, 1978. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "WESLEYAN CHAPEL / / THE LANING / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484431 / SD7033987076" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Wesleyan chapel, now United Reformed church. Dated 1834. Thin watershot coursed rubble with large quoins, all white-washed; graduated blue slate roof with 2 courses of stone slate at the eaves. Rectangular single-cell building on east-west axis. The south front has 2 round-headed 6-pane windows with Y-tracery in the heads, and in the middle of the wall between them a datestone lettered "WESLEYAN / 1834 / CHAPEL". The rear has similar windows. The west gable wall has a tall round-headed opening containing a square headed doorway with a slab lintel and a round-headed window immediately above this, with glazing bars and a stone slate drip-band." "INTERIOR: internal porch; pitch-pine dado and pulpit (benches removed); moulded plaster cornice; ceiling with moulded plaster roundel and 4 moulded plaster diamonds from which globular electric lamps hang on chains. Forms group with High Laning Farmhouse to the south (qv)." |
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| hearsay:- |
Built as a Quaker meeting house, on the site of a cottage, 1701, to replace meetings
out of doors and in local houses. Nothing of this remains; it was bought for a Wesleyan
Methodist chapel, built 1834. |
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