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St John, Hutton Roof
St John's Church
Hutton Roof Church
locality:-   Hutton Roof
civil parish:-   Hutton Roof (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD56937879
1Km square:-   SD5678
10Km square:-   SD57
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BSS21.jpg (taken 7.5.2010)  
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CFU80.jpg (taken 30.1.2017)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 47 6) 
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 (Per Curacy) / Grave Yard"

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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"Chapel"
church 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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CY24SD57.jpg
"Chapel"
church symbol; church or chapel 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

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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"HUTTON ROOF"
United benefice with Lupton, one parish. 
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St John
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST JOHN / / / HUTTON ROOF / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75666 / SD5693078791"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. 1881-2. By Paley and Austin. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Nave with north aisle and south-west tower, chancel with north organ loft and vestry. Tower has stair turret clasping south-west angle and diagonal buttress to south-east angle; 2 dripcourses; 2-light traceried bell openings with timber louvres; top cornice and embattled parapet with higher turret; low pyramidal roof has weathervane with pierced date: 1881. South entrance has continuous mouldings and double-cusped light over; west side has straight-headed 2-light hollow-chamfered window with double-cusped light over. 2-bay nave has west 2-light straight-headed single-chamfered-mullioned window with cusping; flanking buttresses; south elevation has straight-headed windows of 3 and 2 lights with uncusped tracery over small basement lights; weathered buttress to east end. Aisle under swept catslide roof has straight-headed windows of 2 and 3 lights with 3-centred heads; west end has single-chamfered double-cusped light. Chancel has weathered base, high 3-light east window with moulded arch and hood; gable cross. South elevation has 3-light straight-headed window with cusped tracery, buttress to north. Organ loft and vestry under asymmetrical gable has 2 ogee-headed lights to east over basement entrance. North steps to entrance with coped parapet, entrance has sunk ogee; 2-light straight-headed window with cusping. Interior: Porch in tower has timber and glass screen dated 1924. Nave has canted ceiling with 2 collar and tie beam trusses with tracery panels. 4-bay arcade has piers with moulded bases, capitals and arches. Font has chamfered angles and clustered shafts. West window has stained glass dated 1880. North window has crucifixion panel of uncertain date. Arch between aisle and organ loft has open traceried screen. Chancel arch has moulded responds and open screen with tracery cornice and bratishing, similar screen to organ loft. Timber lectern, pulpit and stalls have blind and open tracery. Altar rail has turned balusters and tracery. Altar is similar, sedilia have heads with sunk cusped arches. Vestry has angle fireplace and small recess. 2 stones, one dated 1616, the other a key, dated 1757, from earlier church on site."

 sundial


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CFU93.jpg  Organ.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU94.jpg  Organ pipes.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU92.jpg  Lamp.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU90.jpg  One of the shields decorating the church.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU91.jpg  One of the shields decorating the church.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU87.jpg  Communion pewter, patten, chalice, jug.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU95.jpg  Keystone:-
"Rob Burro / Chapel War / 1757 den" (taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU96.jpg  Stone:-
"1610" (taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU97.jpg  Wood carving, Christ and eleven disciples.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU98.jpg  Memorial to Theodore Bayley Hardy VC DSO MC, Royal Army Chaplains Department, d.1918.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU99.jpg  Notice about building grant from the Incorporated Society for Building and Churches, 1878.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU88.jpg  Drum.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU89.jpg  Model of St John's Church, by Charlie Brookes.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFV03.jpg  Boot scraper: modern, replacing one that was stolen.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFV01.jpg  Churchyard plan.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFV02.jpg  Churchyard
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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BSS27.jpg (taken 7.5.2010)  

hearsay:-  
Theodore Bayley Hardy was vicar here before World War I. He served as Chaplain to the Forces in that war and was awarded the Victoria Cross, 1917. He was wounded on the battlefield three weeks before the armistice, and died, 1918.


Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
date:-   1879
 to 1882
New church in perpendicular style.

dedication
person:-    : St John
place:-   Hutton Roof / Carlisle Diocese

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