Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Anthony, Cartmel Fell

St Anthony, Cartmel Fell

St Anthony's Church

Cartmel Fell Church

locality:-

Cartmel Fell

civil parish:-

Cartmel Fell (formerly Lancashire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

SD41658806

1Km square:-

SD4188

10Km square:-

SD48

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BJZ60.jpg (taken 9.11.2005)
photograph

BTG81.jpg (taken 30.7.2010)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8 12)
placename:- St Anthony's Church

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.
"St. Anthony's Church (Perpetual Curacy) / Grave Yard"

evidence:-

:- Hullmandel 1826
placename:- Liindale Chapel

source data:-

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HUL108.jpg
Print, uncoloured lithograph, Lindale Chapel, at the foot of Cartmel Fells, Lancashire, drawn by Miss I Cropper and Miss S Atkins, published by Charles Hullmandel, London, 1826. "Drawn on Stone by I.C & S.A. / Printed by C. Hullmandel. / LINDALE CHAPEL, / AT THE FOOT OF CARTMEL FELLS."
item:-
Armitt Library : ALMA370.8
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old print:- Watson 1894

source data:-

print, people inside St Anthony, Cartmell Fell, 1894

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WT1E05.jpg
In The Annals of a Quiet Valley, by A Country Parson edited by John Watson, published by J M Dent and Co, London, 1894.
item:- Kendal Library : 5
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old print:-

source data:-

print, scything the churchyard, St Anthony, Cartmell Fell, 1894.

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WT1E06.jpg
In The Annals of a Quiet Valley, by A Country Parson edited by John Watson, published by J M Dent and Co, London, 1894. "BERTHA NEWCOMBE"
item:- Kendal Library : 5
Image © see bottom of page

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.

NUR1SD48.jpg
"CARTMEL FELL"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

stained glass

evidence:-

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

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST ANTHONY / / / CARTMEL FELL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / I / 421164 / SD4165288064"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. c.1504, porch late C16, vestry probably C18. Roughcast stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Single-vessel nave and chancel with small projections under catslide roofs to east end, west tower with north-west vestry under lean-to roof, south gabled porch. 3-bay nave has stone bench to south facade. Straight-headed windows of 3 arched lights with hollow-chamfered mullions, label moulds and leaded glazing. Single chamfered-mullioned window of 2 arched lights inserted over priest's door in 1698. Porch has Tudor-arched hollow-chamfered opening and inner door with strap hinges. Chancel has 5-light east window with 2 small square windows, one above the other, to right; south 3-light window replaced in 1911, originally wooden mullioned frame; north projection has east and west entrances. Vestry has stack and west window. Saddleback tower has blocked west entrance with inserted window, small slot to each face, and plain stone-louvred bell openings. Interior: tie beam and strut trusses. Arch to baptistry under tower, plain round font of 1712, old benches and chest. Nave has organ in north-west corner. Cowmire pew to north-east probably constructed from former reredos and chancel screen in 1571 and heavily restored in 1911; low panelling, one-light divisions with tracery heads and coved cornice with Tudor flowers and cresting, missing to east side; door has swan-neck hinges; panelling to north has some paint remaining, including halo; small traceried canopy above is ex situ; table and incised game to bench relate to pew's use as school. Smaller pew to east has bolection-moulded panels, foliage panels and lettering: "WH 1696", door has H-hinges. Burblethwaite pew to south-east originally C17 but largely reconstructed in 1810, turned posts, pierced frieze and cornice with canopy; to east a tile panel of St Anthony. 3-decker pulpit to west of Burblethwaite pew dated 1698, fielded panelling, canted pulpit with tester, royal arms of 1781 opposite. Chancel has 3-sided C18 communion rail with front projection and column balusters; flanking painted Lord's Prayer and creed boards, and Commandment board to north with ogee head and cherubs and dove, 1793. Small recess to south of altar. East window has substantial remains of stained glass, thought originally to be from Cartmel Priory, but likely to be made for church, crucifixion, 7 sacraments and SS Anthony and Leonard. Window rearranged in 1911, some fragments, including crucifixion and Christ appearing after resurrection, placed in north-east nave window."

incumbents:-

Rawlinson, William	1520 -
Biggs, John Holme	1520 -
Wilson, John	1559 - 1561
Copeland, John	1585 - 1599
Dowson, Robert	1605 -
Steill, Gilbert	1608 - 1648
Brooke, John	1649 - 1658
Inman, George	1659 - 1660
Stainton, George	1675 - 1677
Macdowell, John	1682 - 1699
Myles, William	1700 -
Walker, J	1703 - 1706
Hotblack, Thomas	1707 - 1710
Sandys, William	1712 - 1714
Clarke, Thomas	1782 - 1790
Allenby, John	1790 - 1827
Wilson, William	1827 - 1828
Cockerton, Robert B	1829 - 1861
Carter, Thomas	1862 - 1867
Summers, William	1867 - 1909
Price, Thomas	1909 - 1916

sundial

BTG82.jpg Royal coat of arms.
(taken 30.7.2010)
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BTG83.jpg Pulpit, remodelled in 1697 to this three decker arrangement; thirteen days work at a shilling a day, paid to joiner Thomas Seath.
(taken 30.7.2010)
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BTG96.jpg Pulpit, date:-
"1698" (taken 30.7.2010)
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BTG97.jpg Organ, by Wilkinson, Kendal, 1878.
(taken 30.7.2010)
photograph

BTG98.jpg Maker's plate on organ:-
"Wilkinson / Kendal 1878" (taken 30.7.2010)
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CBQ98.jpg Old pew.
(taken 12.9.2014)
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CDC15.jpg Notes on The Bible.
(taken 24.5.2016)
photograph

CBR14.jpg Memorial, John Poole d.1767, and his family
(taken 12.9.2014)
photograph

CDC13.jpg Memorial, William Sandys, d.1714
(taken 24.5.2015)

CDC14.jpg Memorial, Miss Poole
(taken 24.5.2015)

"Betty Pool Daughter to John & Margery Poole Junior who departed her life Novr. 21st. Interd the 24th. 1779 Aged 3 Years one Month &5 Days.Underneath this Stone A mouldring Virgin lies
Who was the Pleasure once of Human Eyes
Her Blaze of Charms Virtue well aprov'd
The Gay admir'd her much the parents lov'd
Transitory life death untimely came:
Adiue Farewell I only leave my name"

BTG87.jpg The Ten Commandments.
(taken 30.7.2010)
photograph

BTG88.jpg The Ten Commandments.
(taken 30.7.2010)
photograph

BTG89.jpg The Lord's Prayer.
(taken 30.7.2010)
photograph

BTG90.jpg The Lord's Prayer.
(taken 30.7.2010)
photograph

BTG91.jpg The Creed.
(taken 30.7.2010)
photograph

BTG92.jpg The Creed.
(taken 30.7.2010)

BJZ63.jpg The Cowmire pew, made from the rood screen after the Reformation, and used as a schoolroom for local children, taught by the curate.
(taken 9.11.2005)
photograph

BTG85.jpg The Cowmire pew.
(taken 30.7.2010)
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BTG86.jpg The Cowmire pew.
(taken 30.7.2010)
photograph

BJZ64.jpg The Cowmire pew.
(taken 9.11.2005)
photograph

BTG84.jpg Date on Cowmire pew:-
"WH 1696" (taken 30.7.2010)

Scratched on the seats in the Cowmire pew are two diagrams. There are two suggestions as to what these might be. They could be a teaching aid for arithmetic, or boards for game of Fox and Geese. Fox and Geese games that I have found illustrated are not laid out like this, although there are similarities, and similarities to other games. or can I see how the layout would help teach arithmetic.

CBR15.jpg Carvings on the benches might be for a game, or for teaching arithmetic?
(taken 12.9.2014)
photograph

CBR16.jpg Carvings on the benches might be for a game, or for teaching arithmetic?
(taken 12.9.2014)
photograph

BJZ62.jpg Enclosed pew of the household of Burblethwaite Hall; rebuilt 1811.
(taken 9.11.2005)

BTH03.jpg (taken 30.7.2010)
photograph

BNW01.jpg Gravediggers at work; using a mini JCB, pneumatic drill, and excavator buckets in the hard rocky soil, notice the coffin template.
(taken 27.6.2007)

BJZ69.jpg Copy of a drawing by Bertha Newcombe, 'The Parish Clerk, Old Times' published 1897, referring to the 1840s. The parish clerk stands with a pitch pipe at his desk in the three decker pulpit.
(taken 9.11.2005)

notes:-

The church was built as a chapel of ease to Cartmel, in the 1500s. It is said to have been founded in accordance with a provision of the will of Anthony Knipe of Burblethwaite Hall. The porch was added during the reign of Elizabeth I. The chapel was allowed burials from 1712, baptisms from 1764, and marriages from 1765. The floor was flagged in 1727. Major restoration was undertaken, supervised by John Curwen, architect, about 1911. It was said that:-

"neat, orderly building is less picturesque than the tattered neglected ruin of old."

: : church leaflet

dedication

person:-

: St Anthony of the Pigs

place:-

Cartmel Fell / Carlisle Diocese

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