Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St John, Newton Arlosh

St John, Newton Arlosh

St John's Church

Newton Arlosh Church

locality:-

Newton Arlosh

civil parish:-

Holme East Waver (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

locality type:-

pele tower

coordinates:-

NY19875524

1Km square:-

NY1955

10Km square:-

NY15

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BPN41.jpg (taken 26.7.2008)
photograph

BPN42.jpg (taken 26.7.2008)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 21 7)
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 text:- Gents Mag
placename:- Hulme Cultram

source data:-

Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.

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Gentleman's Magazine 1850 part 1 p.70 "CUMBERLAND."
"In a Convocation holden at Oxford on the 3rd Nov. the instruments authorising the division of certain portions of Hulme Cultram, into three several districts, were sealed. The patronage of this widely extended parish belongs to the University, and by a former grant of 50l. per annum to each of the three churches of St. Paul, St. Cuthbert, and St. John, three resident clergymen will now be secured, in a district the greater part of which was several miles from the parish church, and so dispersed as to render an attendance on divine worship during the greater part of the year utterly impossible."

evidence:-

site plan:- Curwen 1913
placename:- Newton Arlosh Church

source data:-

Site plan, lithograph, Plan of Newton Arlosh Church, St John's Church, Newton Arlosh, Holme East Waver, Cumberland, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1913.

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CW0168.jpg
On p.328 of The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, by John F Curwen.
printed at bottom:- "PLAN OF NEWTON ARLOSH CHURCH."
printed at bottom right:- "John F. Curwen. 22.vj.12."
item:- Armitt Library : A782.68
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old print:- Curwen 1913
placename:- Newton Arlosh Church

source data:-

Print, uncoloured lithograph, Newton Arlosh Church in 1816, St John's Church, Newton Arlosh, Holme East Waver, Cumberland, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1913.

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CW0169.jpg
On p.331 of The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, by John F Curwen.
printed at bottom:- "NEWTON ARLOSH CHURCH IN 1816."
item:- Armitt Library : A782.69
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.

NUR1NY15.jpg
"NEWTON ARLOSH"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Church of St John the Baptist

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST / / / HOLME EAST WAVER / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / I / 71973 / NY1986955243"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church. Licence to crenellate 11 April 1304, extended and repaired 1844 by Sarah Losh, vestry and restoration 1894. Large blocks of squared red sandstone mixed with cobbles. Extensions of red sandstone all under sandstone slate roofs, except for lead on tower. Square fortified west tower with extremely thick walls. Contemporary 2-bay fortified nave; 1844 north chancel at right-angles with apside vestry on east wall. Tower has original and restored arrow-slit windows. 2-light Tudor north window has C19 restoration. Upper part of tower is of different stonework and has been restored with battlemented parapet and turret. Nave has narrow hollow-chamfered pointed doorway and arrow- slit windows. 2-bay chancel has round-arched west doorway and lancet windows. Vestry has round-headed windows. Interior of tower has vaulted basement and spiral stone stair giving access to upper floor priest's chamber with fireplace and to second floor chamber. Nave: C13 octagonal font bowl with crocketed gables on fragmentary stem. Carved ram's head corbels by Sarah Losh in east wall flank former altar position. Carved wood lectern, in form of palm tree, by Sarah Losh. North wall has been almost entirely removed to give access to chancel. Chancel and nave extensively renovated and furnished in 1894. Although in ruins from the Dissolution to 1844, this is still one of the most complete fortified churches in the area. See Curwen, Castles & Towers of Cumberland & Westmorland, 1913 pp328-30; Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian &Archaeological Society, new series, xiii, ppll3-121."

evidence:-

old print:-
placename:- Newton Arlosh Church
item:- religion

source data:-

Print, uncoloured engraving, South West View of Newton Arlosh Church, ie St John's Church, Cumberland, ... published by T Cadell and W Davies, Strand, London, 1816.

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PR0558.jpg
printed at upper caption:- "South-West View of Newton-Arlosh Church."
printed at bottom right:- "Published by T. Cadell &W. Davies, Strand."

incumbents:-

Borrodaile, Gawen	1538 - 1552
Robinson, William	1535 -
Stubb, George	1564 - ?
Adcock, William	1576 -
Symson, Henry	1577 -
Symson, Christopher	1578 -
Mandeville, Edward	1581 -
Mandeville, Robert	1607 -
Jefferson, Thomas	1617 -
Robson, Charles	1632 -
Head, William	1638 -
Hewit, John	1684 -
Holmes, John	1687 -
Ogle, John	1694 -
Jefferson, Thomas	1715 -
Boak, Thomas	1730 -
Kay, Mattew	1767 -
Watts, Clement	1783 -
Pattinson, John	1797 -
Thompson, John	1809 -
Jackson, John Starkey	1814 -
Collinson, Robert	1822 -
Simpson, Joseph	1842 -
Whiteman, Robert	1849 -
Rothery, William	1860 - about
Shepherd, William Mutrie	1865 -
Rooke, William Thomas	1873 -
Salesbury, Norman	1890 -
Mitchell, John	1897 -

scratch dial

BPN43.jpg The pele tower.
(taken 26.7.2008)
photograph

CFG67.jpg Eagle on the roof.
(taken 29.7.2016)
photograph

CFG68.jpg Boot scraper.
(taken 29.7.2016)

BUI34.jpg Watercolour painting, an erased date seems to be '0something?
(taken 26.7.2008)

notes:-

There is a legend that St Ninian built an oratory here in 394, with no evidence to support it. Newton Arlosh came into being when Skinburness was lost to the sea, and a charter to build a church was granted to the Abbot of Holme, 1303. The church was built with a fortified tower. In 1580:-

"... the chapel of Newton Arlosh did decay, the door stood open and sheep lay in it. About fifteen years since the roof fell down, and the lead was taken away by some of the tenants and converted into salt pans. ..."

The church was restored in 1843.

: : church leaflet

hearsay:-

An engraving in Lyson's Britannia shows more than half the tower gone, 1816.

They say the first one of a couple to come out of the narrow door after their wedding will be the boss in the family.

notes:-

Fortified church, tower and nave, 14th century.

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustration

dedication

person:-

: St John the Evangelist

place:-

St John's Newton Arlosh / Carlisle Diocese

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