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St James, Tebay
St James's Church
Tebay Church
locality:-   Tebay
civil parish:-   Tebay (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY61610444
1Km square:-   NY6104
10Km square:-   NY60
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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CAH12.jpg (taken 11.4.2014)  
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CAH17.jpg (taken 11.4.2014)  

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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NUR1NY60.jpg
"TEBAY"
item:-  JandMN : 27
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 / / / TEBAY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74202 / NY6160404438"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church. Completed 1880, architect C J Ferguson. Rock-faced snecked granite blocks; dressed stone details. Graduated slate roofs. Built on sloping site: Single-storey aisleless nave and chancel; north porch and apsidal western baptistry are 2-storey, with 3-stage bell-turret between. 5 bays overall. Chamfered plinth, with stepped buttresses, to nave and chan- cel; battered lower storey to baptistry and turret. Plank porch door in pointed surround; 2 tripartite windows, with ogee heads, to left. Triple lancet to chancel, 3-light east window. 3 windows to each floor of baptistry. Shouldered heads to belfry openings and store door (below porch)."
"INTERIOR: Polychrome brick with wide, pointed chancel arch; meeting room below baptistry is circular in plan with central column. 1930 polygonal granite pulpit; tapered, cylindrical granite font in baptistry. Good early C20 stained glass by T Curtis of Ward & Hughes (London), including First World War commemora- tive window on south side, and Abbott &Co (Lancaster)."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WEST GATES TO ST JAMES' CHURCHYARD / / / TEBAY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74203 / NY6161504446"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Churchyard gates, probably c,1880. Cast and wrought-iron. Double gate with kissing gate adjoining to south. Octagonal cast-iron posts with ball finials; rod standards, with foliate fleurs-de-lis terminals, to gates. Included for group value."


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BTR25.jpg  Organ.
(taken 16.10.2010)  
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BTR26.jpg  Organ pipes.
(taken 16.10.2010)  
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BTR24.jpg  Roll of honour, World War I, LNWR railwaymen.
(taken 16.10.2010)  
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BTR28.jpg  Church gate. Erected by public subscription, 1905.
(taken 16.10.2010)  
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BJW68.jpg (taken 29.9.2005)  

notes:-  
Built 1880.

dedication
person:-    : St James
place:-   Tebay / Carlisle Diocese

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