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| St Cuthbert, Kentmere | ||
| St Cuthbert's Church | ||
| Kentmere Church | ||
| locality:- | Kentmere | |
| civil parish:- | Kentmere (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church | |
| coordinates:- | NY45630411 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4504 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY40 | |
| references:- | : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5 |
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 BMF65.jpg (taken 4.6.2006)  CDM30.jpg (taken 2.7.2015) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 9) |
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| 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. "Church (Per Curacy) / Grave Yard" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) |
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| 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. J5NY40SE.jpg church item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by
Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W
Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William
Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman,
Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd,
Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839. goto sourcePage 140:- "[near Kentmere] Hall stands the chapel, in a burial-ground that was consecrated in 1701. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Nurse 1918 |
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| 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. NUR1NY40.jpg "KENTMERE" item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936 |
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| source data:- | Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Parish Church of St Cuthbert, Kentmere, Westmorland,
scale about 1 to 290? published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England,
London, 1936. click to enlargeHMW081.jpg On p.129 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. RCHME no. Wmd, Kentmere 1 item:- Armitt Library : A745.81 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "ST CUTHBERTS PARISH CHURCH / / / KENTMERE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76493 / NY4563104107" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Parish Church. C16, substantially rebuilt (by subscription) in 1866; some further alterations in the 1930s. Rough cast rubble; local graduated slate roof. West tower nave and chancel (externally undivided), South porch. West tower, saddleback with coping, finials (stone to East, metal to West); 2 stages, 2-light round-headed belfry openings to all sides, single lancet to West. Nave and chancel treated in the simplest way with round-headed lancets (4 to nave, 3 to chancel) to North and South. South porch, gabled with depressed arched doorway, and with one C18 and one early C19 gravestone built into South wall. 4-light East window under segmental head, plain mullions, uncusped. Interior: uninterrupted space. C16 roof with moulded ties, ridge piece and purlins, shallow pitch, boarded. C19 tower screen, simple stalls and benches. Flag floor; the windows are deeply splayed. Only one monument of note: to Bernard Gilpin (barn at Kentmere), 1901 by the Keswick School of Industrial Arts, bronze with foliage frame: 'Arts and Crafts, almost Arts and Crafts, almost Art Nouveau' (Pensner, Buildings of England - Cumberland and Westmorland, p25." |
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 BRJ99.jpg (taken 9.9.2009)  BMF72.jpg (taken 4.6.2006)  CDM23.jpg Lamps. (taken 2.7.2015)  BMF66.jpg (taken 4.6.2006)  BSB80.jpg The old yew tree. (taken 3.2.2010)  BVI10.jpg Yew tree, said to be about 1000 years old. (taken 9.9.2011) |
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 BSB78.jpg Organ. (taken 3.2.2010)  BSB79.jpg Organ, makers plate:- "WILKINSON &SONS / KENDAL." (taken 3.2.2010) |
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| The organ was installed about 1912, perhaps by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal; it was
earlier in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Kirkby Stephen. There may be another makers
plate behind the Wilkinson's. The organ was rebuilt by J P Hall, Kendal, 1982. |
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 BPT19.jpg Notice:- "A.D. 1756 / This C. of KENTMERE was augmd. / And A.D. 1757 Lands purchd. with L4000 / Whereof Given by / Qn. ANNE'S Bounty ... 200 / By Execrs. of WM. STRATFORD L.L.D. ... 100 / By on Benefrs. ... 100" (taken 17.10.2008)  BPT20.jpg Notice:- "THIS CHURCH / HAVING FALLEN INTO A STATE OF DECAY / WAS RESTORED BY SUBSCRIPTION / AND THE TOWER BUILT AT THE SOLE COST / OF ADMIRAL WILSON / OF THE HOWE, WINDERMERE, / WHO WAS ALSO ONE OF THE CHIEF SUBSCRIBERS. / A.D. 1866" (taken 17.10.2008)  BPT21.jpg Notice:- "IN MEMORY OF / JOHN GILPIN / FORMERLY OF POUT HOWE / KENTMERE WHO DIED ON / THE 15TH OF JANUARY 1959 / AMD WHO CAUSED THIS / CHURCH TO BE RENOVATED" (taken 17.10.2008)  BPT22.jpg Memorial to Bernard Gilpin:- "... IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF ... / BERNARD GILPIN / BORN AT KENTMERE HALL OF HONOURABLE LINEAGE HE BECAME FELLOW / OF QUEENS AND STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH OXFORD: HE ACCEPTED THE / PRINCIPLES OF THE REFORMATION AND WAS ONE OF ITS NOBLEST EXPONENTS / IN A PERILOUS TIME HE FACED THE PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH AND THE / ANGER OF THE QUEEN FOR TRUTH AND DUTY: A PATTERN PARISH PRIEST / HE WAS AS SAINTLY AS HE WAS BRAVE: AS GENEROUS AS HE WAS JUST: / AS PRACTICAL AS HE WAS ENTHUSIASTIC. AN ARDENT STUDENT OF / SCRIPTURE HE DID NOT UNDERVALUE PRIMITIVE TRADITION. AN / IMPASSIONED MISSIONARY HE WON THE NAME OF THE APOSTLE OF / THE NORTH. ... / NA. 1517. OB. 1583." (taken 17.10.2008) |
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 BMF68.jpg Print, portrait of:- "BERNARD GILPIN / One of the reformers, was born at Kentmire, in Westmorland, in 1517. He founded a school at Houghton le Spring, and acquired the honourable appelation of the 'Northern Apostle'. He died March 4th. 1583. / Let your Light so shine before Men. / [London William Darton ... Holborn Hill ... ]" (taken 4.6.2006) |
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| notes:- |
It is suggested that parts of the building date to norman, or perhaps saxon times.
It was reroofed in the mid 16th century. There was restoration work in 1866. |
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| hearsay:- |
The organ used to be in the Wesleyan methodist chapel, Kirkby Stephen. It was probably
moved here, 1912, perhaps rebuilt by Wilkinsons of Kendal. The Wilkinson maker's plate
covers an earlier maker's plate. It was rebuilt by J P Hall, Kendal, 1982, |
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| dedication | ||
| person:- | : St Cuthbert |
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| place:- | Kentmere / Carlisle Diocese | |
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