Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Andrew, Dent

St Andrew, Dent

St Andrew's Church

Dent Church

locality:-

Dent

civil parish:-

Dent (formerly Yorkshire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

SD70518704

1Km square:-

SD7087

10Km square:-

SD78

BJW14.jpg (taken 23.9.2005)
photograph

BRW26.jpg (taken 13.11.2009)

stained glass

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Church of St Andrew

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST ANDREW / / MAIN STREET / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / I / 484410 / SD7052587039"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. Probably C12, enlarged and remodelled in early C16, with some fabric believed to be Norman; tower said to have been added in later C18; much renewed in 1889. Mixed random rubble with quoins; stone slate roof to nave, copper roofs to aisles. Mostly simple Perpendicular style. PLAN: nave and chancel in one, with full-length north and south aisles, south porch and west tower."
"EXTERIOR: the square unbuttressed tower, with an embattled parapet, has a square-headed doorway in the south side, a small window in the west side and small 2-light belfry windows with cusped lights and stone louvres. A lean-to in its north angle (continued form the north aisle) has a round-headed doorway with a stone slate drip-band over it. The nave has 4 clerestory windows of 2 round-headed lights and the chancel continues with two 3-light clerestory windows which have cusped lights, all these windows with hoodmoulds. The south aisle has a gabled porch at the west end with a round-headed doorway moulded in 2 orders and a C19 2-centred arched inner doorway; and 5 tall square-headed mullioned windows of various sizes (a buttress between the 3rd and 4th windows), all with round-headed lights: a 2-light window next to the porch, with Perpendicular tracery in the head, a tall 3-light window and a shorter 3-light window, all variously restored, then 2 original C16 3-light windows. All these windows have hoodmoulds with dropped ends and the second one has mask stops. Below the 4th window is a small round-headed priest door. The north aisle has a blocked round-headed doorway to the 1st bay, with a chamfered surround, a square 2-light mullioned window above and to the left, and then four tall 3-light windows with hoodmoulds, like those of the south aisle. The east end has a large segmental-headed 5-light east window with a transom flanked by 3-light windows, all these windows restored."
"INTERIOR: 3+3 bay nave and chancel arcades of 2-centred double-chamfered arches, the former (probably early C13) with 2 cylindrical columns between octagonal terminal piers which appear to have been designed for different arcading (and those at the west end partly enclosed by the masonry of the tower, which has no opening), and the latter (probably C16) with octagonal columns. The 2 eastern bays have balustraded screens to the choir (probably C19); the choir and chancel are paved on 2 levels with polished Dent marble in black and white chequer pattern. Octagonal oak pedestal pulpit with lozenges in the side panels, bracketed desk with carved frieze including raised lettering "M T 1614", and a sounding-board. The south aisle contains 5 original C17 box pews with carved decoration, some with initials and dates, and early C18 benches with fielded panel backs and initials worked in metal studs; and the north aisle has early C18 enclosed side-benches in 2 tiers, with a late C17 box pew at each end. Wall monuments: in the south aisle, 2 early C18 pedimented sandstone aedicules with fluted pilasters and dentilled entablatures (now laminating and the tablets illegible), a marble wall tablet commemorating Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873, Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge University) and another commemorating his son (vicar of Dent); in the north aisle, a pair of marble wall tablets to members of the Sill family of West House (now known as Whernside Manor, qv), including John Sill "of Providence in the Island of Jamaica", d.1774, and another to Emma, widow of General Brownrigg (d.1815 at Broadfield House, qv)."

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"GATEWAY TO SOUTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW / / MAIN STREET / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484411 / SD7051287003"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Gateway to churchyard. Probably later C18 or early C19. Sandstone piers and wrought-iron gate. A pair of simple round-topped piers and one large wrought-iron gate with round bars and dog-bars which all have double scrolls at the tops, the dog-bars passing through an arched brace, and the top of the gate surmounted by a segmental arch with pendent scrolled strap and pierced by an arrow-head finial with scrolled decoration to the shaft. Forms group with Church of St Andrew (qv), Sedgwick Cottage (qv), Sedgwick Fountain (qv) and Ivy Cottage (qv)."

evidence:-

old print:- Thompson 1894

source data:-

Print, engraving, Dent Church ie St Andrew's Church, Dent, Yorkshire, published by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894.

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THP132.jpg
On p.110 of An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson.
item:- Armitt Library : A1612.B32
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old print:- Thompson 1894
placename:- St Andrew's Church

source data:-

Print, engraving, Dent Church, Interior as Restored, ie St Andrew's Church, Dent, Yorkshire, by S A Symington, published by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894.

click to enlarge
THP133.jpg
On p.114 of An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson.
printed at lower right:- "[S] A. S"
item:- Armitt Library : A1612.B33
Image © see bottom of page

ring of bells

incumbents:-

Robert	1290 - about
Holme, J	1451 -
Sides, W	1505 -
Man, T	1595 -
Leake, R	1604 - about
Tennant, J	1608 -
Waller, W	1645 -
Hunter, T	1671 -
Rumney, M	1717 -
Vanbrugh, R	1758 -
Sedgwick, R	1768 -
Sedgwick, J	1822 -
Sedgwick, R	1859 -
Lewis, J	1885 -
Hayden, J	1891 -
Curwen, E	1910 -

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

BRW27.jpg Organ.
(taken 13.11.2009)
photograph

BRW28.jpg Organ.
(taken 13.11.2009)
photograph

BJW20.jpg Coat of arms, George III, 1792
(taken 23.9.2005)
photograph

BJW16.jpg Memorial to Adam Sedgwick, born in Dent, 1785, professor of geology, Cambridge University, died 1873.
(taken 23.9.2005)
photograph

BRW36.jpg Memorial with coat of arms of the Danvers Family.
(taken 13.11.2009)
photograph

BTZ14.jpg Coat of arms of the Danvers Family; Augustus Fennell Danvers, died 1869.
(taken 28.1.2011)
photograph

BTZ15.jpg Coat of arms of the Mason Family; George Pendril Mason, died 1880.
(taken 28.1.2011)
photograph

BRW37.jpg Gravestone to Wilam Holm, 1731.
(taken 13.11.2009)
photograph

CBS93.jpg Clock dial.
(taken 19.9.2014)
photograph

BYL01.jpg Church gate,
(taken 31.5.2013)

MN photo:-

The church retains a number of old box pews.

BRW31.jpg Box pew.
(taken 13.11.2009)
photograph

BJW15.jpg Box pews, inscribed:-
"EW 1693" (taken 23.9.2005)
photograph

BRW32.jpg Box pew inscribed:-
"CBW MIHI 1706 IS THT C" (taken 13.11.2009)
photograph

BRW33.jpg Box pew inscribed:-
"CBW MIHI 1706 IS THT C" (taken 13.11.2009)
photograph

BRW34.jpg Box pew inscribed:-
"GG LG 1685" (taken 13.11.2009)
photograph

BRW35.jpg Box pew inscribed:-
"[ ] LG 1685" (taken 13.11.2009)

MN photo:-

The floor of the choir is Dent marble and ??? marble surrounds.

BRW29.jpg (taken 13.11.2009)
photograph

CBT03.jpg (taken 19.9.2014)

MN photo:-

There is an old desk standing in one of the side aisles.

BTZ16.jpg Desk.
(taken 28.1.2011)
photograph

BTZ17.jpg Inkwell:-
"SARACEN FOUNDRY / MACFARLANE'S PATENT / GLASGOW" (taken 28.1.2011)

notes:-

The building probably dates to the mid 12th century. Rebuilt 1417, in 1590 there was an earthquake and the chancel was reported to be in a 'state of decay'. In 1615 the lead on the chancel roof was removed by a vehement wind, but there is no record of anything being done. By 1685 the lead had gone from the nave roof, and the porch was leaning dangerously. In 1686 the floors were paved, In the 1780s there was major renovation; the tower fell down, damaged by earthquake, and was cleared away and replaced, various other alterations were made.

Boulton, David: 1995: Thousand Ages, the Story of the Church in Dentdale
: 2000=2009 (?): Discover Dent Village: Dent Business Forum

dedication

person:-

: St Andrew

place:-

Dent / Bradford Diocese

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