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St Bride, Kirkbride
St Bride's Church
St Bridget's Church
Kirkbride Church
locality:-   Angerton
locality:-   Kirkbride
civil parish:-   Kirkbride (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY22955733
1Km square:-   NY2257
10Km square:-   NY25
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BPN48.jpg (taken 26.7.2008)  
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BUI24.jpg (taken 3.4.2011)  

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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NUR1NY25.jpg
"KIRKBRIDE"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

 notes about bells

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Bride
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST BRIDE / / / KIRKBRIDE / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 71985 / NY2296057329"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. C12 with C19 restoration. Large blocks of red sandstone (thought to be of Roman origin) with flush quoins. Nave roof of graduated sandstone slates; chancel, vestry and porch with greenslate roofs. 3-bay nave with west open bellcote and south porch; lower single-bay chancel with south vestry. Nave has round-headed south entrance with C19 timber-framed porch. Tall C19 cusped-headed windows, that to left of 2-lights. North wall has narrow blocked entrance under flat lintel. One original narrow round-headed window and similar window in chancel. C19 intersecting east window. Interior: unmoulded chancel arch on plain imposts. Square-bowled font with knobbly leaf decoration around the underside and trefoil and quatrefoil panel decorations on each side. Small square stoup in chancel has rounded corners and carved lamb and cross decoration. Inscription over south entrance, now door into vestry, E(cclesia) Bride. C19 and early C20 stained glass, east window by Kayll &Co, Leeds, 1904. Photographs of the 1895-8 restoration in the vestry, show that almost all of the chancel was taken down and rebuilt."

 cross slab gravestones

incumbents:-  
Bromfield, Robert de  1341 -  
Westerton, John de  1342 -  
Fisher, Cuthbert  1580 -  
Allanby, Robert  1580 -  
Hemmerford, Giles  1586 -  
Dean, Nicholas  1587 -  
Hudson, Mr  1643 -  
Lumley, Thomas  1660 -  
Hall, Henry  1678 -  
Walker, John  1717 -  
Cowper, John  1743 -  
Gillbanks, George  1750 -  
Metcalfe, Francis snr  1823 -  
Metcalfe, Francis jnr  1835 -  
Flowers, William  1835 -  
Hallifax, Joseph snr  1847 -  
Hallifax, Joseph jnr  1855 -  
Lumb, Henry  1869 -  
Whiteside, Joseph  1894 -  
Hopper, William Robertson  1896 -  
Jefferson, William  1904 -  
Nedham, George  1911 -  

evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Kirkbride Church
source data:-   Drawing, Kirkbride Church, St Bride's Church, Kirkbride, Cumberland, by Samuel Bough, Kirkbride, Cumbria, England, late 19th century.
image  click to enlarge
PR1103.jpg
Evening view of Kirkbride church and its graveyard, casting lengthy shadows. 
inscribed at bottom right:-  "Kirkbrid[ ] Chur[ ]"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1970.80.30
Image © Tullie House Museum


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BPN50.jpg  Organ.
(taken 26.7.2008)  
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BUI20.jpg  Organ.
(taken 3.4.2011)  
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BUI23.jpg  Banner
(taken 3.4.2011)  
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BUI21.jpg  Font.
(taken 3.4.2011)  
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CBM68.jpg  Carved stone.
(taken 22.8.2014)  
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CBM67.jpg  Chancel.
(taken 22.8.2014)  
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BUI19.jpg (taken 3.4.2011)  

notes:-  
The church stands on the site of a roman fort. It is recorded in a pipe roll of 1189. By the time of a visitation of Bishop Nicholson, 1870s:-
"... it looks more like a pigsty than the house of God ..."
And by 1880 the question was whether the walls would fall inward or outward. It was restored in the 19th century, and a porch added; a vestry was added in the 1960s.

: : church leaflet

notes:-  
It is said that a lane leading from the church to Marsh Road was called Wine Lonning. Smuggled wine was brought up this lane to the cellars of the rectory, and then on to the Wheatsheaf Inn.

dedication
person:-    : St Bride
place:-   Kirkbride / Carlisle Diocese

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