Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Cuthbert, Plumbland

St Cuthbert, Plumbland

St Cuthbert's Church

Plumbland Church

locality:-

Parsonby

civil parish:-

Plumbland (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY14153922

1Km square:-

NY1439

10Km square:-

NY13

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BOT96.jpg (taken 14.3.2008)
photograph

CBW12.jpg (taken 10.10.2014)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 36 13)
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:- 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.

NUR1NY13.jpg
"PLUMBLAND"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

stained glass

evidence:-

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

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT / / / PLUMBLAND / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 411792 / NY1415339223"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. 1871 by J.A. Cory (in partnership with C.J. Ferguson), on medieval site and incorporating some medieval features. Hammer-dressed St Bees and calciferous sandstone with ashlar quoins, buttresses and string course. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finials. 4-bay nave with aisles, north organ chamber and 3-storey tower/porch. 2-bay chancel with north vestry. Nave has 3 gabled dormer clerestory windows and paired-lancet aisle windows. Tower has south doorway, and east side window which is C13 and reused from original church. Chancel has paired lancet windows and traceried east window. Interior: 4-bay north arcade and 3-bay south arcade with pointed arches of alternate red and yellow sandstone on round columns. Re-used zigzag Norman chancel arch. Unsigned late C19 and early C20 stained glass. 1684 wall plaque to Farish family and Reverend Edward Stanley, 1834. Chancel has late C19 stained glass and wall plaques to Ballantine-Dykes family. C19 piscina, the medieval one now in the vestry. Vestry doorway is C13 re-used."

evidence:-

old print:- Calverley 1899
item:- hogback gravestone

source data:-

Under a yew tree in the churchyard:-

click to enlarge
CV1134.jpg
Photograph by W L Fletcher.
On the churchyard wall:
... a coped stone, 56x10x7 ins, ornamented with semicircles ... perhaps a hogback?
item:- JandMN : 190
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old print:- Calverley 1899
item:- cross

source data:-

In the church:-

click to enlarge
CV1090.jpg
Lithograph by W S Calverley.
item:- JandMN : 190
Image © see bottom of page

3 cross slab grave covers; inside tower, 1st floor.

Inaccessible.

Ryder, Peter: 2001: Cross Slab Grave Covers of Cumbria: Cumbria CC (Carlisle, Cumbria)

incumbents:-

Cospatric	1173 -
Aencourt, Walter de	1310 -
Aencourt, Peter de	1310 -
Aencourt, Thomas de	1324 -
Arkleby, Alan de	1350 -
Dykes, John	1455 -
Porter, John	1545 -
Potter, William	1545 -
Walles, Lancelot	1562 -
Richardby, William	1568 -
Fletcher, Lancelot	1628 -
Eaglesfield, Gawin	1648 -
Nicholson, Joseph	1662 -
Robinson, Michael	1686 -
Thompson, Gustavus	1702 -
Farish, Peter	1711 -
Leathes, Thomas	1729 -
Askew, Adam	1760 -
Bird, John	1788 -
Stanley, Edward	1802 -
Curwen, John	1834 -
Wordsworth, John	1840 -
Curwen, Edward Hasell	1875 -

BOU02.jpg Chancel arch:-
"I WILL WASH MY HANDS IN INNOCENCY O LORD AND SO WILL I GO TO THINE ALTAR" (taken 14.3.2008)
photograph

BOU04.jpg Organ.
(taken 14.3.2008)
photograph

CBW17.jpg List of charges.
(taken 14.3.2008)
photograph

CBW13.jpg Memorial, Sara Farish, died 1684.
(taken 10.10.2014)
photograph

CBW14.jpg Memorial, Frecheville Dykes, died 1866, and his son.
(taken 10.10.2014)
photograph

CBW15.jpg Coat of arms, Dykes Family
(taken 10.10.2014)
photograph

CBW16.jpg War memorial.
(taken 10.10.2014)
photograph

BOT98.jpg Hogback gravestone, about 980, a Viking hall, note the roof shingles, and an entwined serpent; cut up and used for building about 1220.
(taken 14.3.2008)
photograph

BOT99.jpg Hogback gravestone, about 980; cut up and used for building about 1220.
(taken 14.3.2008)
photograph

BOU05.jpg Vestry door, an apt inscription:-
"LET THY PRIESTS BE CLOTHED WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS" (taken 14.3.2008)
photograph

BOT97.jpg (taken 14.3.2008)
photograph

BOU06.jpg An ancient yew.
(taken 14.3.2008)

notes:-

There was possibly a church here in saxon times; a church was built in 1130; the present building was erected 1871.

dedication

person:-

: St Cuthbert

place:-

Plumbland / Carlisle Diocese

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