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St Kentigern, Aspatria
St Kentigern's Church
Aspatria Church
locality:-   Aspatria
civil parish:-   Aspatria (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY14704191
1Km square:-   NY1441
10Km square:-   NY14
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

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BNY51.jpg (taken 15.8.2007)  
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BNY46.jpg (taken 15.8.2007)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 36 5) 
placename:-  St Kentigern'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. Kentigern's Church (Vicarage) / Grave Yard"
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
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.
image G819A507, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1819 part 1 p.507 
From the Compendium of County History:-  "In Aspatria church, amongst the monuments of the Musgraves, is a cenotaph to Sir William, the sixth baronet, benefactor to the British Museum, who was buried in St. James's church, Westminster, 1800."
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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"ASPATRIA"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page
 stained glass
 stained glass - coats of arms
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Kentigern
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST KENTIGERN / / KING STREET / ASPATRIA / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 410425 / NY1471041916"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. 1846-8 by Travis &Mangnell, built on the site of and incorporating features from a Norman church. Dressed red sandstone,with angle buttresses and eaves modillions, on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finials. 6-bay nave with aisles; square 3-storey west tower with south porch and north vestry; 3-bay chancel has south memorial chapel. Tower has Norman style west doorway under 2-light windows on 2 levels and south clockface. Nave has 2-light aisle windows under quatrefoil clerestory windows. Chancel has 2-light windows and 3-light east window under carved oval panel inscribed to St Kentigern in Latin. Interior has Norman-style tower arch and original zigzag Norman arch from porch reused for vestry doorway. Nave has Early English style arcades on alternate round and polygonal columns. Set at west end of the nave is part of an Anglo-Danish cross shaft, along with other contemporary fragments including a carved hog-back coffin. C13 font has square bowl on 5 shafts. Royal Arms of Queen Anne dated 1711. 1910 aisle windows are a monument to Mary Lady Lawson. C19 numbered pews. Marble wall plaque to William Lomas by P. Nixson, Carlisle, 1823. Chancel has C19 piscina and sedilia. Musgrave memorial chapel has various C18 wall plaques to members of that family of Hayton Castle."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GRAVEYARD CROSS EAST OF CHURCH OF ST KENTIGERN / / KING STREET / ASPATRIA / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 410427 / NY1473741919"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Graveyard cross. Late C19, facsimile of C10 Gosforth Cross. Red sandstone. Stepped plinth with tall shaft, the upper part carved with interlace and figures from Norse legend, surmounted by Celtic crosshead. Erected 1898 as a monument to the vicar W.S. Calverley who was author of Early Sculptured Crosses ..... in the Diocese of Carlisle, 1899."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCHYARD WALL, GATE AND GATE PIERS IN FRONT OF CHURCH OF ST KENTIGERN / / KING STREET / ASPATRIA / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 410426 / NY1471841864"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Wall, gate and gate piers. Mid C19 wall with gates dated 1933. Dressed red sandstone wall with wooden gates. Wall has chamfered coping and square piers. Panelled gates have oak-leaf and vine carving."
evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  cross
source data:-   In the churchyard:-
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Lithographs by W S Calverley. 
Built into the wall of the vestry, inside:- 
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Lithograph by W S Calverley. 
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CV1012.jpg
Photograph by W L Fletcher. 
Found in a dyke at the back of the vicarage. 
and:- 
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Sketch by W G Collingwood. 
item:-  JandMN : 190
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evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  hogback gravestone
source data:-   At the church:-
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Photographs by W L Fletcher. 
item:-  JandMN : 190
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evidence:-   old drawing:- 
item:-  cross
source data:-   Drawing, The Swastika Fragments, St Kentigern's Church, Aspatria, Cumberland, by William Gershom Collingwood, about 1899.
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Sketch of two fragments of a cross; the lower is carved with a swastika between circular ornaments, the uppermost one of which is stamped with a cross. The upper fragment is carved only with circular ornaments. 
Drawn to illustrate Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carlisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, published by T Wilson, Kendal 1899; opposite p.23. 
inscribed at bottom left:-  "The 'Swastika' Fragments; Aspatria"
initialled at bottom right:-  "W.G.C."
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1902.18.6
Image © Tullie House Museum
evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Aspatria Church
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Entrance to Aspatria Church, Cumberland, painted by L Clennell, engraved by J Greig, published by Longman and Co, Paternoster Row, London, about 1815.
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Included in the Border Antiquities of England and Scotland. 
printed at bottom:-  "Engraved by J. Greig, from a Painting by L. Clennell, for the Border Antiquities of England &Scotland. / ENTRANCE TO / ASPATRIA CHURCH. / Cumberland."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.172
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evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Aspatria Church
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Interior of Aspatria Church, Cumberland, painted by L Clennell, engraved by J Greig, published by Longman and Co, Paternoster Row, London, 1815.
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Included in the Border Antiquities of England and Scotland. 
printed at bottom:-  "Engraved by J. Greig, from a Painting by L. Clennell, for the Border Antiquities of England & Scotland. / INTERIOR OF / ASPATRIA CHURCH, / Cumberland. / London. Published July 1. 1815, for the Proprietors by Longman &Co Paternoster Row."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.173
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 ring of bells
 cross slabs
incumbents:-  
Benedict  1174 -  
Adam  1200 -  
Kertling, Bartholomew de  1292 -  
Horncastle, Alan de  1309 -  
Melburn, Richard de  1318 -  
Stroveton, Nicholas de  1333 -  
Bully, Robert  1333 -  
Deincourt, Adam  1357 -  
Ledes, Roger de  1357 -  
Alneburgh, Adam de  1358 -  
Arthureth, William de  1380 -  
Pontefract, Robert de  1385 -  
Fonward, Adam  1385 -  
Mayson, John  1397 -  
Brampton, Thomas de  1405 -  
Sandes, William  1424 -  
Yodal, John  1462 -  
More, William  1474 -  
Yong, Thomas  1489 -  
Ireby, John de  1490 -  
Mitchell, Edward  1565 -  
Thwaites, Anthony  1565 -  
Dawson, Lancelot  1578 -  
Orbell, William  1610 -  
Bradell, Mathew  1617 -  
Warwick, Thomas  1639 -  
Palmer, Francis  1661 -  
Holme, Richard  1686 -  
Fleming, George  1695 -  
Hume, Robert  1703 -  
Bell, David  1706 -  
Brisco, John  1729 -  
Gilpin, William  1771 -  
Fernyhough, William  1793 -  
Gilbanks, John C  1815 -  
Thompson, Edward  1837 -  
Salkeld, Edward  1838 -  
Shipman, I T  1872 -  
Powell, T W  1879 -  
Calverley, W S  1885 -  
Millard, F L H  1898 -  
Hackworth, Thomas  1905 -  

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BNY42.jpg (taken 15.8.2007)  
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BNY45.jpg  Coat of arms, Anne, 1711
(taken 15.8.2007)  
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BVJ23.jpg  Organ.
(taken 15.8.2007)  
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BVJ24.jpg  Organ.
(taken 15.8.2007)  
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BVJ25.jpg  Organ.
"Wilkinson &Sons / Est. Kendal 1829." (taken 15.8.2007)  
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BNY49.jpg  Organ pipes
(taken 15.8.2007)  
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BNY50.jpg  Organ pipes.
(taken 15.8.2007)  
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CDI22.jpg  Norman font, damaged at the Reformation.
(taken 12.6.2016)  
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BNY43.jpg  Norman font, damaged at the Reformation.
(taken 15.8.2007)  
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BVJ18.jpg  Mothers Union banner.
(taken 16.9.2011)  
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CDI23.jpg  War memorial.
(taken 12.6.2015)  
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BNY44.jpg  Coat of arms, a dolphin between three cross crosslets
(taken 15.8.2007)  
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BRB31.jpg  Cross.
(taken 10.7.2009)  
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CDI01.jpg  Hogback gravestone.
(taken 12.6.2015)  
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BVJ27.jpg  Norman door arch.
(taken 16.9.2011)  

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BVJ19.jpg  Coat of arms, Sir Richard Musgrave, died 1710.
(taken 16.9.2011)  
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BVJ20.jpg  Coat of arms, Sir Richard Musgrave, died 1710.
(taken 16.9.2011)  
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BVJ21.jpg  Coat of arms, Sir Richard Musgrave, died 1739.
(taken 16.9.2011)  
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BVJ22.jpg  Coat of arms, Sir Richard Musgrave, died 1739.
(taken 16.9.2011)  
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BNY48.jpg  Coat of arms, General Sir Thomas Musgrave.
(taken 15.8.2007)  
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CDI24.jpg  Coat of arms, Musgrave Family et al.
(taken 12.6.2015)  
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CDI25.jpg  Coat of arms, Musgrave Family.
(taken 12.6.2015)  

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CDI26.jpg  Millenium banner.
(taken 12.6.2015)  
notes:-  
 There was possibly a church on this site in the 6th century. There was an early church building here from about 1100. The present building was designed by Travis and Mangnall, Manchester, built 1846-48; the earlier Norman church was demolished to make way for it, The new design consciously replicated the style of a 13th century town church. There was restoration work in 1956.

: : church leaflet
dedication
person:-    : St Kentigern
place:-   Aspatria / Carlisle Diocese
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