Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	St John, Plumpton
	St John's Church
	Plumpton Church
	Plumpton Wall Church
locality:-	Plumpton
civil parish:-	Hesket (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	church
coordinates:-	NY49703716
1Km square:-	NY4937
10Km square:-	NY43
references:-	: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5
	BMM05.jpg (taken 11.8.2006)   BYX74.jpg (taken 2.8.2013)
	Design by Sir Robert Lorimer, dedicated 1907.
evidence:-	old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
source data:-	Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774. D4NY43NE.jpg "Chapel" church  item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library
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. NUR1NY43.jpg "PLUMPTON WALL" item:-  JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page
	stained glass
evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:-  Church of St John the Evangelist
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST / / / HESKET / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73901 / NY4970737164"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Church. Dated 1907, by Sir Robert Lorimer. Mixed red and orange Penrith sandstone, coursed rubble walls, under graduated greenslate roofs with lead rainwater heads and downspouts. 3-bay nave with south porch and square 2-storey south tower; single-bay chancel with north vestry. Chancel has battered gabled porch with pointed inner and outer arches. 2- and 3-light windows, that in west wall of 5 lights. Battered tower has narrow round-arched doorway and projecting angle turret. Square bell openings with almond-shaped fretwork, under shaped battlements. West gable buttress has datestone. Interior has no fixed pews, but has other fine woodwork; the linen-fold panelled doors, the barrel-vaulted panelled ceiling and linen-fold panelled pulpit. Figurative stained glass in one window by Morris &Co. 1906. This is not listed in Christopher Hussey's book on Lorimer, but a brass inscription plate gives the architect's name and that of the patron, Joseph Harris of Brackenburgh."
evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "LYCH GATE SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST / / / HESKET / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73903 / NY4972637127"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Lych gate. Built and inscribed as a war memorial for 1914-18 war. Mixed red and yellow sandstone under a sandstone slate roof. Side walls and shaped oak gates, with timber frame supporting a hipped roof. Listed for group value with Church of St John."
evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "FORMER FONT SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST / / / HESKET / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73902 / NY4971437152"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Former font from the pre-1907 church. C18. Penrith sandstone. Simple baluster font now used as a central feature in a small garden of rememberance."
	BYX75.jpg  Organ, by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal. (taken 2.8.2013)   BYX76.jpg  Organ builder , "WILKINSON &SONS / KENDAL" (taken 2.8.2013)   BYX77.jpg  Vaulting. (taken 2.8.2013)   BYX81.jpg  Pews, chairs. (taken 2.8.2013)   CDM96.jpg  Pews and kneelers. (taken 3.7.2015)   BYX79.jpg  Woodwork, pulpit. (taken 2.8.2013)   BYX80.jpg  Woodwork. (taken 2.8.2013)   BMM07.jpg  Carving of the eagle of St John the Evangelist. (taken 11.8.2006)   BYX73.jpg  Rainwater head. (taken 2.8.2013)   BTP67.jpg (taken 8.10.2010)   BTP68.jpg  Date:- "1907" (taken 8.10.2010)   BTP69.jpg  Funerary plate. (taken 8.10.2010)   BMM06.jpg (taken 11.8.2006)   CDM95.jpg (taken 3.7.2015)
	BYX78.jpg  Reredos. (taken 2.8.2013)
	The reredos was designed by Sir William Lorimer, setting a painting by William Hole. It was once in the chapel of St Mary's Mission, Bell's Brae, Edinburgh, which has been demolisht.
	BYX82.jpg  Old church, pre 1907. (taken 2.8.2013)   BYX83.jpg  Old church, pre 1907. (taken 2.8.2013)
	The location of the old church is marked by four stones in the churchyard.
notes:-	There was formerly a chapel of ease to Lazonby. Plumpton became a parish in 1873. The present church was built about 1907, design by Sir Robert Lorimer.
	dedication
person:-	: St John the Evangelist
place:-	Plumpton Wall / Carlisle Diocese

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