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St James, Great Ormside
St James's Church
Ormside Church
locality:-   Great Ormside
civil parish:-   Ormside (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY70141764
1Km square:-   NY7017
10Km square:-   NY71
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

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BUT10.jpg (taken 17.6.2011)  
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BJY82.jpg (taken 28.10.2005)  
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 at Gt Ormside 
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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"ORMSIDE"
United benefice with Asby, but separate parish. 
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Ormside Parish Church of St James, Great Ormside, Ormside, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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On p.186 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, bottom  "ORMSIDE - PARISH CHURCH OF ST. JAMES"
RCHME no. Wmd, Ormside 1 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.113
Image © see bottom of page
 stained glass
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St James
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST JAMES / / / ORMSIDE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 73270 / NY7013917646"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church, dating from late Cll with later alterations and additions. Coursed, squared rubble used in earlier parts and snecked rubble for later work. Nave and lower chancel roofs are graduated slate on south side and stone flagged on north, with stone copings and C19 apex crosses; gabled tower roof and vestry outshut on north side are graduated slate. West tower, nave, and chancel; Hilton chapel added to north of nave in 1723, replacing original north aisle. 3-stage, stepped west tower has single narrow opening to each floor on south and west sides, and massive angle buttressing; 3 mask corbels from original top string course survive in each gable. Gabled C19 south porch rebuilt from earlier materials to west of original position. Shouldered outer door; inner door surround has semicircular head and continuous triple-cavetto moulding. Late C11 door to east partially blocked with 2-light Cl9 window inserted. C18 nave window surround with semicircular head has C19 traceried window inserted (2 similarly treated windows in north wall of Hilton chapel); small C14 mullioned window to right has 2 lights with trefoiled ogee heads under hoodmould. Chancel has 3 windows on south side (none on north) of which central one is reset C14/C15, with 2 ogee-headed lights, above early C16 door with moulded ogee head under hoodmould; mullioned windows to either side are early C16 with 2 semicircular-headed lights each. Similar 3-light east window has blocked head of 2-light C14 window set in wall above. Internally, the original narrow west doorway with semicircular head now leads into tower which has had a basement excavated, probably to house the heating system. A C12 arcade of 2 semicircular arches separates the Hilton chapel from the nave; the west respond is C18/C19 but the freestanding pier and east respond have retained their scalloped capitals and moulded bases. North wall of chapel has inset panel with coat-of-arms and 1723 date; patterned woodblock floor has 1884 date on central block. Hagioscope between vestry and chancel has C14 trefoiled head; early C16 combined aumbry/piscina of 2 recesses with semicircular heads in south wall at east end. Chancel has 3-bay early C16 king-post roof with moulded tie-beams, curved braces, and raking struts; C19 nave roof has crown-posts and moulded tie-beams. Font probably C12 on C19 base; square in plan with shallow circular basin and tapered rounding of corners."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CROSS IN CHURCHYARD TO SOUTH OF CHAPEL / / / ORMSIDE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73271 / NY7014717628"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Slab surmounted by large stone block; cross base, dated 1643. Present celtic cross erected in 1897 (dated)."
evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  cup; Ormside Cup
source data:-   Sketches by W G Collingwood.
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item:-  JandMN : 190
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evidence:-   old painting:- 
item:-  bowl; Ormside Bowl
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, The Ormside Cup, York, found in the churchyard at St James's Church, Great Ormside, Westmorland, by William Gershom Collingwood, about 1899.
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Study of centre and rim of cup with interlaced decoration to centre; detail of design of flora, animals and birds in the Greek Italian style to rim. The bowl is in the Yorkshire Museum. 
Drawn to illustrate Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carlisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, published by T Wilson, Kendal 1899; opposite p.300. 
initialled at centre left:-  "W.G.C."
inscribed at bottom centre:-  "The Ormside Cup [York]"
initialled at bottom right:-  "W.G.C."
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1902.18.35
Image © Tullie House Museum
 cross slab gravestones
incumbents:-  
Gosford, William de  1294 -  
Mortland, John de  1321 -  
Risenden, Robert de, Sir  1343 -  
Grote, John de, Sir  1362 -  
Bix, Robert, Sir  1367 -  
Colleby, Richard de  1406 -  
Hodgson, William  1484 -  
Atkinson, William  1535 -  
Parker, Christopher, Sir  1565 -  
Towlson, Richard  1566 -  
Watson, John, Sir  1569 -  
Barnes, John  1571 -  
Corry, John  1572 -  
Mansfield, Lancelot  1575 -  
Braythwaite, John, Sir  1582 -  
Hudson, John  1587 -  
Burton, Richard  1591 -  
Burbank, John ?  1594 -  
Parkin, George  1617 -  
Atkinson, John  1622 -  
Symson, Robert  1636 -  
Symson, Barnaby  1661 -  
Symson, John  1679 -  
Nicholson, Thomas  1726 -  
Nicholson, William  1727 -  
Cantley, Thomas  1731 -  
Preston, William  1762 -  
Spooner, Thomas  1778 -  
Monkhouse, William  1807 -  
Whitehead, Robert  1811 -  
Bush, James  1851 -  
Parker, Christopher  1854 -  
Clarke, Thomas  1856 -  
Brunskill, Joseph  1893 -  
Wharton, John  1903 -  
Twigge, John Sergeant  1907 -  
Dewberry, Charles George  1909 -  

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CCA74.jpg  Corbled arch in porch.
(taken 17.6.2011)  
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BUT12.jpg (taken 17.6.2011)  
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BUT13.jpg (taken 17.6.2011)  
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BUT16.jpg  Leper's squint or hagioscope.
(taken 17.6.2011)  
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BUT15.jpg (taken 17.6.2011)  
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CCA68.jpg (taken 17.6.2011)  
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CCA56.jpg  Pew and kneeling board.
(taken 17.6.2011)  
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CCA60.jpg  Oil lamp.
(taken 17.6.2011)  
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BUT17.jpg (taken 17.6.2011)  
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CCA64.jpg  Flooring.
(taken 7.11.2014)  
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CCA65.jpg  Flooring:-
"A 1884 D" (taken 7.11.2014)  
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CCA66.jpg  Flooring.
(taken 7.11.2014)  
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BJY85.jpg  Coat of arms of the Hilton Family, 1723.
(taken 28.10.2005)  
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CCA59.jpg  War memorial.
(taken 7.11.2014)  
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CCA54.jpg  Stone in porch.
(taken 7.11.2014)  
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CCA55.jpg  Stone in porch.
(taken 7.11.2014)  
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CCA73.jpg  Stone in rear wall, cross head?
(taken 7.11.2014)  
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BUT11.jpg  Remains of the preaching cross.
(taken 17.6.2011)  
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BJY81.jpg (taken 28.10.2005)  
MN photo:-  
 The bowl is in the collection of the Yorkshire Museum, item 1990.35.

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BVT32.jpg  The Ormside Bowl; AD 750 and 850.
(taken 11.12.2011)  courtesy of the Yorkshire Musem
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BVT33.jpg  The Ormside Bowl; AD 750 and 850.
(taken 11.12.2011)  courtesy of the Yorkshire Musem
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BVT34.jpg  The Ormside Bowl; AD 750 and 850.
(taken 11.12.2011)  courtesy of the Yorkshire Musem
The Ormside Bowl, found in the churchyard of St James's Church, Great Ormside, early 19th century. Originally a church vessel, made in York about 750; converted to a drinking vessel about 850.
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 There are photos of three 15th century bells; the Paulus bell given by John Brunskill in 1900, the Ava Maria bell, and the Robertus Harding bell.
notes:-  
 The church is a mixture of building periods. The nave and a small chancel were built in the 11th century; a north aisle was added in the 12th century; the west tower was added about 1200 and the chancel extended; the chancel was rebuilt and enlarged in the late 15th or early 16th century; a south porch was added in the 16th or 17th century; the Helton chapel was built 1723 on the site of the north aisle; all was restored in the 19th century when a vestry was added, the norman arches rebuilt, and the porch moved.

: : church leaflet
notes:-  
 defensible tower

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustration
dedication
person:-    : St James
place:-   Ormside / Carlisle Diocese
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