Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Bartholomew, Loweswater

St Bartholomew, Loweswater

St Bartholomew's Church

Loweswater Church

locality:-

Loweswater

civil parish:-

Loweswater (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY14142095

1Km square:-

NY1420

10Km square:-

NY12

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BJY16.jpg (taken 14.10.2005)
photograph

BRK95.jpg (taken 14.9.2009)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 63 9)
placename:- St Bartholomew'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. Bartholomew's Church (Per Curacy) / Grave Yard"

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

D4NY12SW.jpg
church at Loweswater
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (But/Cru/Low)

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1794, version published 1800.

CT8NY12K.jpg
"Church"
Marked by a cross.
item:- Armitt Library : 1959.191.2
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag
item:- Duddon Sonnets

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 1820 part 2 p.345 "[from a review of Wordsworth's Duddon Sonnets] ..."
"... Loweswater, ... from the register of that parish Mr. Wordsworth gves the following memoranda respecting "a person apparently of desires as moderate, with, with whom he must have been intimate during his residence.""
""Let him that would ascend the tottering seat
Of courtly grandeur, and become as great
As are his mounting wishes; but for me,
Let sweet repose and rest my portion be.
HENRY FOREST, Curate."
"Honour, the idol which the most adore,
Receives no homage from my knee;
Conent in privacy I value more
Than all uneasy dignity."
"Henry Forest came to Lowes-water, 1708, being 25 years of age.""
""This curacy was twice augmented by Queen Anne's bounty. The first payment, with great difficulty, was paid to Mr. John Curwen of London, on the 9yth of May, 1724, deposited by me, Henry Forest, Curate of Lowes water. Ye said 9th of May, ye said Mr. Curwen went to the office and saw my name registered there, &c. This, by the Providence of God, came by lot to this poor place."
"Haec testor H. Forest.""
""In another place he records, that the sycamore trees were planted in the churchyard in 1710."
""He died in 1741, having been curate thirty-four years. It is not improbable"

evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag 1820

source data:-

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Gentleman's Magazine 1820 part 2 p.346 "that H. Forest was the gentleman who assisted Robert Walker in his classical studies at Lowes-water."
""To this parish register is prefixed a motto, of which the following verses are part."
""'Invigilate, viro, tacito, nam tempora gressu
Diffugiunt, nulloque sono convertitur annus;
Utendum est aetate, cito pede praeterit aetas.'""
"..."

evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849)
placename:- Loweswater Church

source data:-

Engraving, outline view of mountains, Crummock and Buttermere from the Road near Loweswater Church, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.18 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.

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O80E10.jpg
item:- Armitt Library : A1180.11
Image © see bottom of page

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.

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.

BRK96.jpg (taken 14.9.2009)

stained glass

incumbents:-

Westray
Boranskail, John ?	1600 - ?
Curwn, Patricius	1673 -
Naughley, Andrew	1701 -
Tiffin, John	1702 -
Forrest, Henry	1708 -
Wilkinson, Joseph	1742 -
Simpson, Joseph	1742 -
Cowper, Thomas	1744 -
Barnes, John	1795 -
Dodgson, Lancaster	1811 -
Atkinson, Jeremiah	1828 -
Green, Eldred	1858 -
Tandy, George Mercer	1866 -
Thwaites, William	1883 -
Gamble, John	1887 -

BVF06.jpg (taken 17.8.2011)
photograph

BVF09.jpg Coat of arms, Joseph Skelton, d.1830.
(taken 17.8.2011)

notes:-

There is a record of a chapel in Loweswater in 1125; site uncertain. A new building was consecrated in 1829. It was altered and enlarged so that most of what is seen dates to 1884. In 1895 it became a parish church.

: : church leaflet

dedication

person:-

: St Bartholomew

place:-

Loweswater / Carlisle Diocese

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