Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Columba, Warcop

St Columba, Warcop

St Columba's Church

Warcop Church

locality:-

Warcop

civil parish:-

Warcop (formerly Westmorland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY74291571

1Km square:-

NY7415

10Km square:-

NY71

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BVA88.jpg (taken 24.7.2011)
photograph

CGF27.jpg (taken 23.6.2017)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 16 9)
placename:- St Columbe'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 Columbe's Church (Vicarage) / Grave Yard / Cross (Remains of)"

evidence:-

old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd)

source data:-

Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.

J5NY71NW.jpg
"Church"
church
item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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.

NUR1NY71.jpg
"WARCOP WITH GREAT MUSGRAVE"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936

source data:-

Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Warcop The Parish Church of St Columba, Warcop, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.

click to enlarge
HMW139.jpg
On p.237 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland.
printed, top left and right "WARCOP / The / PARISH CHURCH / of ST. COLUMBA"
RCHME no. Wmd, Warcop 1
item:- Armitt Library : A745.140
Image © see bottom of page

stained glass

evidence:-

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

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"PARISH CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA / / B6259 / WARCOP / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 73386 / NY7429415706"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church, dating from C12 with later additions and alterations. Sandstone blocks with buttressing under graduated slate roofs. 2-cell plan with chapel to north and south; south porch. For description and plan see R.C.H.M. pp 237-238; not mentioned in their account are the panelled box pews in the nave, all numbered, dating from 1716 (date, with initials C.W. at top of door to pew no. 42 in north-west corner of nave)."

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"ENTRANCE TO VICARAGE FROM ST COLUMBA'S CHURCHYARD / / B6259 / WARCOP / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73388 / NY7431315675"

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CROSS TO SOUTH OF ST COLUMBA'S PARISH CHURCH / / B6259 / WARCOP / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73387 / NY7428815686"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Remains of cross, probably medieval. Stone. Large square plinth-block with stump of cross-shaft set in socket; shaft has stop chamfers to corners."

cross slabs

incumbents:-

Musgrave, Robert de	1310 -
Warthecoppe, William de	1311 -
Houeden, Hugh de	1320 -
Preston, Nicholas de	1359 -
Greystoke, John	1535 -
Knype, Edward	1575 -
Jack, David	1576 -
Deane, Nicholas	1585 -
Robson, Robert	1589 -
Jaques, Anthony	1597 -
Marton, George	1625 -
Mawson, Edward	1643 -
Crow, Charles	1663 -
Ward, Richard	1684 -
Lamb, Matthew	1714 -
Ward, Mattias	1735 -
Fell, Richmond	1785 -
Preston, William Michael	1829 -
Bland, Joseph	1843 -
Preston, William Stephenson	1850 -
Preston, Charles Moyes	1855 -
Shaw, Seymour	1901 -