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St Cuthbert, Cliburn
St Cuthbert's Church
Cliburn Church
locality:-   Cliburn
civil parish:-   Cliburn (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY58762449
1Km square:-   NY5824
10Km square:-   NY52
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BSO90.jpg (taken 23.4.2010)  
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BSO82.jpg (taken 23.4.2010)  
Built in the 12th century.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 8 7) 
placename:-  St Cuthbert'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 Cuthbert's Church (Rectory) / Grave Yard"

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.
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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.
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"CLIBURN"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Parish Church of St Cuthbert, Cliburn, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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HMW046.jpg
On p.68 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
RCHME no. Wmd, Cliburn 1 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.46
Image © see bottom of page


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BSO91.jpg  The church bells.
(taken 23.4.2010)  

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Cuthbert
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT / / / CLIBURN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 422666 / NY5876624490"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church; C12 with extensive late C19 restoration. Coursed, squared rubble with snecked rubble additions. Graduated slate roofs (lead roof to aisle) with stone copings and kneelers; bellcote with iron gable-cross to west end. Originally 2-cell plan with south aisle added and gabled porch rebuilt in 1886. Narrow slit window with semicircular head on north side of chancel probably original; others, multi-light, variously foiled and cusped are C19. Lead rainwater goods have dated rainwater heads (1886) and rosette decoration to guttering. Reset C12 south door has plain jambs; small carved figure to either end of shouldered lintel, blank tympanum with chevron decoration to voussoirs. 2 fragmentary inscribed Roman stones and part of medieval grave slab are built into inner porch walls. Internally, original chamfered semicircular chancel arch survives; late C19 octagonal arcade pier and responds. Late C12 font at west end of south aisle has octagonal bowl (recut?), with moulded underside, on shaft with zig-zag decoration; moulded necking to chamfered base."

 cross slab gravestones

incumbents:-  
Malveysin, Nicholas  1284 -  
Tilliol, Peter  1302 -  
Helepston, Henry de  1307 -  
Laton, Simon de  1309 -  
Burdonne, John de  1317 -  
Rosse, Henry de  1342 -  
Knype, Edward  1556 -  
Phaer, Edward  1575 -  
Witton, Christopher  1577 -  
Meye, William  1587 -  
Fleming, Richard  1625 -  
Tullie, Timothy  1639 -  
Ardrey, John  1657 -  
Fenwick, John  1673 -  
Spooner, Nathaniel  1687 -  
Shepherd, Richard  1688 -  
Holme, Marmaduke  1739 -  
Stephenson, Robert  1760 -  
Poole, John  1803 -  
Robinson, John  1833 -  
Jackson, William  1841 -  
Burton, Clarke Watkins  1858 -  
Bosworth, Reginald P  1908 -  
Wright, Charles  1910 -  

 scratch dial


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BSO89.jpg  Door arch
(taken 23.4.2010)  
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BSO88.jpg  Organ by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal.
(taken 23.4.2010)  
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BSO86.jpg  Parish chest.
(taken 23.4.2010)  
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BSO87.jpg  Parish chest, inscription:-
"T. H. 1696" (taken 23.4.2010)  
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BSO84.jpg  Roman inscription.
(taken 23.4.2010)  
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BSO85.jpg  Roman altar??.
(taken 23.4.2010)  
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BSO81.jpg  Funerary plate.
(taken 23.4.2010)  
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BSO92.jpg  Gate.
(taken 23.4.2010)  
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BSO93.jpg  Gate catch.
(taken 23.4.2010)  

hearsay:-  
This is traditionally a site where monks from Lindisfarne rested, with the body of St Cuthbert, fleeing from the Vikings, 865-866.

dedication
person:-    : St Cuthbert
place:-   Cliburn / Carlisle Diocese

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