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St John, Low Crosby
St John's Church
Crosby on Eden Church
locality:-   Low Crosby
locality:-   Crosby-on-Eden
civil parish:-   Stanwix Rural (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY44805958
1Km square:-   NY4459
10Km square:-   NY45
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BUY78.jpg (taken 22.7.2011)  
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CFC08.jpg (taken 22.7.201110.6.2016)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 17 9) 
placename:-  St John'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. John's Church (Vicarage) / 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.
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NUR1NY46.jpg
"CROSBY-ON-EDEN"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

 notes about bells

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St John
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST JOHN / / / STANWIX RURAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77663 / NY4480859586"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. 1854 by R.H. Billings, totally replacing medieval church on same site. Dressed red sandstone, graduated slate roof. 2 1/2 storey tower, 4 bay nave, single bay chancel. West tower has moulded plinth course continued round entire building: entrance has pointed arch with crocket open pediment and trefoil tympanum: string course, lancets with curvilinear tracery. Short spire has crocket edges and 4 lucarnes finished with central pinnacle. Projecting stair tower in south wall. Nave has pointed windows of 2 lights with curvilinear tracery heads and continuous drip moulding. Chancel has steeply pitched roof on north side to cover vestry. Interior has original pews with end doors; oak carved pulpit; carved oak lecturn; Norman font from the original church, with square base, rounded stem, square bowl with chamfered edges. Rear gallery on cantilever arches, with oak balustrade and handrail. Roof on semicircular arched braces. Windows have squared leaded lights with cut or moulded glass heads and internal segmental rear arches with lacy tracery. A number of white warble wall plaques. The Post Office Directory of Cumberland &Westmorland, 1858, p.152, suggests that the new church was partly built with stone from the Roman Wall."


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CFC18.jpg  Organ.
(taken 10.6.2016)  
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CFC19.jpg  Organ.
(taken 10.6.2016)  
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CFC15.jpg  Pews.
(taken 10.6.2016)  
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CFC16.jpg  Plate on end of a pew:-
"B" (taken 10.6.2016)  
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CFC17.jpg  Plate on end of a pew:-
"1855" (taken 10.6.2016)  
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CFC20.jpg  Font.
(taken 10.6.2016)  
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BUY79.jpg  Gravestone, coat of arms, David Kennedy d.1819.
(taken 22.7.2011)  
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BUY82.jpg (taken 22.7.2011)  
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CFC21.jpg  Date stone:-
"B 1854" (taken 10.6.2016)  
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BUY81.jpg  Railings.
(taken 22.7.2011)  
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CFC22.jpg  Gate from the school to the church;-
"G V / 1935" George V jubilee, 1935.
(taken 22.7.2011)  

notes:-  
Inside, there is a war memorial plaque.

dedication
person:-    : St John the Evangelist
place:-   Crosby on Eden / Carlisle Diocese

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