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Lady Holme, Windermere lake
Lady Holme
site name:-   Windermere lake
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   island
coordinates:-   SD39829748
1Km square:-   SD3997
10Km square:-   SD39

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BPE52.jpg  Lady Holme.
(taken 12.5.2008)  
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BPD42.jpg  Hen Holme and Lady Holme.
(taken 12.5.2008)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 11) 
placename:-  Lady Holme
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.
evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
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Page 58:-  "[Windermere] ... Lady-holme, where in ancient times stood an oratory, is an isle of an oval form, vested with coppice-wood. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) 
placename:-  Lady Holm
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Grand Lake of Windermere, scale about 2 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1819.
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"Lady holm"
island 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.102
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evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
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In Windermere Water. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Lady Holm
item:-  chapel; Chapel of St Mary Holm
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 140:-  "... The rest of the islands are small, and belong to several persons too tedious to mention. One, viz. Lady Holm, had a chapel on it in the time of Henry the VIII. then called The Chapel of St Mary Holm, within Wynandermere, and belonged to the Abbey of Furness in Lancashire, ... (see plate X.)"
evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Windermere N) 
placename:-  Lady Holm
source data:-   Map, A Map of the Northern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Samuel John Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
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"Lady holm"
item:-  private collection : 10.10
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  St Mary Holme
placename:-  Lady Holme
item:-  chapel
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 154:-  "..."
"St. Mary Holme, otherwise called Lady Holme, is another island in this lake, so denominated from a chapel built antiently therein, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin."
"By an inquisition after the death of Joan de Coupland the jurors found, that she died seised of the advowson of the chapel of St. Mary Holme within Wynandermere, which was valued at nothing, because the land that had belonged to the same had in old time been seized into the lord's hand, and laid within the park of Calvgarth."
"Amongst the returns made by the commissioners to inquire of colleges, chapels, free chantries, and the like, in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. there is the "free chapel of Holme and Winandermere.""
"This island belonged to the Philipsons of Calgarth, and still goes along with the Calgarth estate. There are no ruins of the chapel remaining. It is a very small island. The chapel would cover near half of it. It is a rock with some few shrubs growing upon it in the middle of the lake, wonderfully adapted to contemplation and retirement."
evidence:-   old text:- Wordsworth 1810
placename:-  Chapel Holm
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes, later A Guide through the District of The Lakes, by William Wordsworth, 1810-35.
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page 21  "... Every one must regret that scarcely a vestige is left of the Oratory, consecrated to the Virgin, which stood upon Chapel-Holm in Windermere, ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  Saint Mary's Holme
placename:-  Ladyes Holme
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 2 p.251  "..."
"Besides their other large estates, the Philipson owned the rocky islet in Windermere, called Saint Mary's or the Ladyes Holme, hitherto reputed to have formed part of the conventual domains of the abbey at Furness, and to have had its name from a chantry or small chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, which was existing so late as the reign of King Henry VIII. When at the Reformation all such minor institutions were swept away as superstituious, and the attendant priests driven forth, the building fell into so utter a state of ruin that no trace even of its foundations is left to procalim to the stranger who meditates upon the fleeting change of times and creeds that here in former ages stood a hallowed fane, from whence at eventide and prime unceasingly, for more than three centuries, "the hymn of intercession rose, and prayers were wafted through the dewy air," where now are only heard the festal sounds of life's more jocund hours. Lately renewed antiquarian investigation has however disclosed the erroneousness of the generally received statement respecting early ownership of this tiny spot. In vol.xxxii fo. 23, of that celebrated collection of ancient evidences gathered by the untiring perseverance of the profound antiquary Roger Dodsworth, now in the Bodleian library, there is contained an inquisition, or the copy of one, found at Kendal, so far back as the Monday after the Feast of the Annunciation, in the 28th year of King Edward III.; which explanatory document shews that this retreat amid the waters of our English Como appertained not to Furness Abbey, but to the house of Segden, in Scotland, which was bound always to provide two resident chaplains for the service of Our Ladyes Chapel in this island solitude. For the maintenance and support of these priests certain lands and tenements were given by the founder, who most probably was that Ingelram de Guisnes, Lord of Coucy, in France, who, in the thriteenth century, married Christain, the heiress of William de Lyndsey, and in her right became the feudal lord of that portion of the barony of Kendal called the Richmond Fee, within which lies Saint Mary's Holme."
evidence:-   old map:- Prior 1874 map 1
placename:-  Lady Holme
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1874.
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"Lady Holme"
island 
item:-  private collection : 133.1
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Lady Holm Isle
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Windermere - Mountains as seen from the North End of Belle Isle, Windermere, and Mountains as seen from Biscay How, Bowness, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... Lady Holm Isle ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.4
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Lady Holm Isle
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen from the North End of Belle Isle, Windermere, and Mountains as seen from Bisket How, Bowness, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, about 1844.
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"... Lady Holm Isle ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.3
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