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St Mary, Ulverston
St Mary and Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church
Ulverston Church
locality:-   Ulverston
civil parish:-   Ulverston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD28897868
1Km square:-   SD2878
10Km square:-   SD27
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

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BRD80.jpg (taken 31.7.2009)  
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BRD76.jpg (taken 31.7.2009)  
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 142:-  "..."
"Ulverston, ... The steeple was built by a private person from the ground to the height of the church roof, and was finished by the inhabitants."
evidence:-   old text:- Capper 1808
source data:-   Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published 1808-29.
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"[Ulverston] ... The church stands in a field, a small distance from the town, a white building having a square tower, containing 3 bells. ..."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
item:-  stained glass
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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"[Ulverston] ... The church, dedicated to St. Mary, stands at a little distance from the town, under a hill; it was enlarged and nearly rebuilt in 1804, and consists of a nave , chancel, and aisles, adorned with several monuments of the Dodding and Braddyll families. The east window represents, in painted glass, the four Evangelists, and Christ risen from the sepulchre, after-"
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Page 5:-  "Rubens; the altar-piece is the 'Taking down from the Cross' after Sir Joshua Reynolds: the lay rector, T. R. G. Braddyll, Esq. of Conishead Priory, generously defrayed the expense of both these pictorial embellishments. ..."
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"[Ulverston] ... The old church, dedicated to St. Mary, was enlarged in 1804, and is now one of the handsomest churches in Lancashire. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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cross, a church 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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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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"ULVERSTON"
item:-  JandMN : 27
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 stained glass
 hatchments
 kneelers
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Mary
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY / / CHURCH WALK / ULVERSTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 459895 / SD2889978685"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. C16 with re-used C12 south doorway. Restored and enlarged 1804. Extensively restored and partly rebuilt 1864-6 by Paley. Chancel extended 1903-4 by Austin and Paley, who also re-furnished the east end of the south aisle in 1923 as the War Memorial Chapel. Sandstone and limestone rubble with red sandstone dressings and slate roofs."
"PLAN: comprises a west tower, nave with clerestorey, south aisle and south porch, a north aisle under a pitched roof, and a chancel."
"EXTERIOR: the tower is of 3 stages and has angle buttresses and an embattled parapet. The west window is pointed, of 3 lights with Perpendicular tracery. Below there is a doorway which is hollow-chamfered with a segmental arch. The bell openings are each of 3 lights with flat heads, mullions, slate louvres, and hoodmoulds. On the south side of the wall of the middle stage is an inscribed tablet with hoodmould. The north aisle is of 7 bays separated by buttresses and has pointed windows with Perpendicular tracery. All are of 2 lights except for the western one in the north wall which is of 3 lights, as is the east window. The west window is of 5 lights. On the south side the clerestorey windows are mullioned, of 3 lights with flat heads and hoodmoulds. The south aisle windows are pointed and of 2 lights: to the left of the priest's door there are 4 windows and to the right there are 2. The porch, towards the west end, is gabled with a cross finial and with a moulded 4-centred outer doorway which has a hoodmould and angel stops. The inner doorway appears to be re-set and has a round arch of 3 orders (including chevron and cable ornament) with chamfered imposts. The east chancel window is of 5 lights, and a south buttress is inscribed 'MDCCCCIII'."
"INTERIOR: the pointed tower arch is chamfered in 2 orders which die into the responds. The 7-bay arcades date from 1804 and are plastered, with pointed chamfered arches springing from octagonal columns with moulded caps. The open timber roof has braced collar trusses alternating with king-post trusses which have queen struts and corbelled wall posts. The chancel extension is of sandstone ashlar and has double sedilia and a piscina, and a boarded barrel roof. 2 bays of the main arcades are within the chancel, which is raised above the level of the nave and divided from it by a low sandstone wall pierced by quatrefoils."
"FITTINGS: the choir stalls are of carved oak, and oak screens with carved tracery (probably by Austin and Paley) divide the chancel from the south chapel and from the north vestry and organ chamber. A similar screen divides the organ chamber from the north aisle. The organ was re-built in the later C20, but the organ case (which faces towards the north vestry) has 6 timber Corinthian columns supporting an entablature."
"MEMORIALS: the numerous memorials include a tomb chest in the north aisle (formerly in the south chapel) with the carved effigy of William Sandys of Conishead Priory (d.1559). At the west end of the south aisle there is a canopied mural monument to Miles Dodding (d.1629) with a small recumbent figure and a Latin inscription. At the east end of the south aisle there are memorial brasses to an earlier Miles Dodding (d.1606) and his wife set in a tablet of polished limestone in an Elizabethan style which appears to be early C19."
 ring of bells
evidence:-   old print:- Jopling 1843
placename:-  Ulverston Church
source data:-   Print, Ulverston Church, St Mary's Church, Ulverston, Lancashire, by Mr Tuer, published by Whittaker and Co, Ave Maria Lane, London and by Stephen Soulby, Ulverston, Cumberland, 1843.
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Tipped in opposite p.41 of a Sketch of Furness and Cartmel, by Charles M Jopling. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1636.10
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notes:-  
 Described in:-

Butler, Lawrence (ed): 2011: Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne for Cumbria, 1833-1872: CWAAS:: ISBN 978 1 873124 52 9
Extracted from the original notes made by Sir Stephen, now in Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Flintshire, contact through Flintshire Record Office

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CAF36.jpg  Door arch.
(taken 4.4.2014)  
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CAF50.jpg  Organ.
(taken 4.4.2014)  
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CAF52.jpg  Organ.
(taken 4.4.2014)  
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CAF68.jpg  Organ.
(taken 4.4.2014)  
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CAF37.jpg  Memorial to Myloni Dedding de Conishead, died 19.4.1629 in his 57th year.
(taken 4.4.2014)  
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BRD77.jpg  Memorial to William Sandys of Conishead Priory, died 1588.
(taken 31.7.2009)  
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BRD78.jpg  Coat of arms of William Sandys, on his memorial.
(taken 31.7.2009)  
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CAF74.jpg  ?parish chest?
(taken 4.4.2014)  
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CAF70.jpg  Charities boards.
(taken 4.4.2014)  
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CAF72.jpg  Charity boards.
(taken 4.4.2014)  

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CAF46.jpg  War memorial.
(taken 4.4.2014)  
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CAF47.jpg  War memorial.
(taken 4.4.2014)  
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
date:-   1864
 to 1866
Rebuilding.
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
date:-   1879
 to 1882
Work on chancel and new east window.
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Henry A
date:-   1905
Work on chancel, new windows, transept.
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Henry A
date:-   1923
event:-   war
 : World War I
 
item:-   war memorial
Conversion of an aisle to a war memorial chapel.
dedication
person:-    : Holy Trinity
place:-   Ulverston / Carlisle Diocese
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