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St John, Garsdale
St John's Church
Garsdale Church
locality:-   Garsdale
locality:-   Garsdale valley
civil parish:-   Garsdale (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD74628954
1Km square:-   SD7489
10Km square:-   SD78


photograph
BJZ10.jpg (taken 4.11.2005)  
photograph
CBS78.jpg (taken 19.9.2014)  

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St John the Baptist
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST / / HAWES ROAD / GARSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484445 / SD7462589544"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. Rebuilt 1860 (dated on rainwater head); restored. Sandstone rubble brought to courses, with freestone dressings, graduated slate roof. Early English style. PLAN: nave with west bellcote, south porch, chancel and north vestry."
"EXTERIOR: the 5-bay nave, with buttresses and a string-course, has a gabled porch to the 1st bay, with a 2-centred arched doorway and coped gable with an apex cross, and a simple lancet in each of the other bays, with tinted geometrical leaded glazing. Moulded cast-iron gutter on stone brackets, and 2 downspouts with moulded rainwater hoppers dated "1860". The west gable wall has 2 lancets, a trefoil above and between them, and a 2-stage bellcote with 2 bells in the lower stage. Small 1-bay chancel with triple-lancet east window; lean-to vestry on north side."
"INTERIOR: arch-braced queen-strut roof; Gothic-style pulpit; Perpendicular-style choir screen to east bay of nave; 2-centred chancel arch. Various wall monuments, mostly C19, including Thomas Dawson of Dandragarth (qv), d.1810, Edmund Dawson "generosi", also of Dandragarth (d.1838); Rev. Edmund Dawson, vicar of Alford, Lincs. (d.1852); and Rev.James Dawson (d.1852) and his son James Edmund Dawson, MD. MCRS, LSA, (died Liverpool, 1880)."

incumbents:-  
Cook, William  1540 -  
Smathwhat, James  1577 -  
Jackson, Richard  1648 -  
Walkden, Peter  1709 -  
Rudd, James  1735 -  
Udal, Charles  1740 -  
Todhunter, William  1760 -  
Nelson, Richard  1763 -  
Blades, Thomas  1803 -  
Thompson, Henry  1838 -  
Allton, David T  1884 -  
Graham, Charles B  1906 -  


photograph
CBS81.jpg  Organ.
(taken 19.9.2014)  

dedication
person:-    : St John the Baptist
place:-   Garsdale / 

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