Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Kentigern, Irthington


	St Kentigern, Irthington
	St Kentigern's Church
	Irthington Church
locality:-	Irthington
civil parish:-	Irthington (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	church
coordinates:-	NY49876163
1Km square:-	NY4961
10Km square:-	NY46
references:-	: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

	BUY95.jpg (taken 22.7.2011) CGC17.jpg (taken 12.5.2017)

evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 17 7) 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)"

evidence:-	descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
source data:-	Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839. goto source Page 108:- "... Irthington and its church form pretty features. ... The nave of the church, which has been originally larger, is separated from the chancel by a noble Norman aisle, sadly disfigured, however, by being wretchedly painted in imitation of blue marble. In this church-yard lies buried Richard Bowman, who lived to be one hundred and eighteen years old, retaining the use of his faculties to the last. ..."

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. NUR1NY46.jpg "IRTHINGTON" item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page

	notes about bells

	stained glass

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St Kentigern
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST KENTIGERN / / / IRTHINGTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 77896 / NY4987661634"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Church. C12, with C14 alterations, renovations of 1849 by Bloxham of Rugby and tower 1897 for James Carruthers. Chancel is mostly of dressed red sandstone from the nearby Roman Wall, with C19 ashlar dressings, nave and tower of snecked ashlar. Graduated slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles. 3-storey, north- west square tower has pointed arch entrance and windows with hood-moulds; louvred vents to bell chamber; angle buttresses, string courses, castellated parapet and clock to north face. 5 bay nave is externally 1849: north and south aisles have pointed lancets and hood-moulds: trefoil clerestory windows with hood-moulds: west entrance has trefoil head in open pediment, with dog- tooth decorations. 3 bay chancel has round-headed lancets and tripartite east window in C12 walls: 1897 vestry to south wall. Interior of nave has 4-bay arcades which Pevsner considers to be c1170, of rounded columns with square abaci and rounded arches with one step and slight chamfer: pointed arch of re-used stone to west, suggests nave was originally longer: capitals are carved with stylized leaves, which have been partly cut away when the arcade was filled and the aisles demolished in the C14 after destruction in a border raid. C12 chancel arch of 2 orders of columns with spur and crocket captitals, the innermost order is a continuous roll and the arch has rolls and dog-tooth decorations. Aisle windows have curvilinear leaded lights, with east windows of early C20 stained glass. Open timber roof. Internal oak panelled porch of mid-C19. C19 table font with 1911 brass cover, Cl9 carved Gothic pulpit and brass eagle lectern: all other furnishings late C19 or early C20. Chancel has C12 splays at east end, to north and south windows: other splays are C19 in enlarged original openings. South door, now inside vestry, is C12 with round- headed arch and incomplete dogtooth decoration. Omen timber roof and all other furnishings late C19 or early C20. Mixed diamond leaded clear glass and late C19 and early C20 stained glass to sides and east window. Churchyard retains its gravestones in rows some of C18 and one as early as 1660's: an earlier graveslab buried under armac path, but still partly visible."

	cross slab gravestones

	sundial

	CGC31.jpg Organ, by Bates and Son, 1864, rebuilt by Harrison and Harrison, 1936. (taken 12.5.2017) CGC32.jpg Organ, by Bates and Son, 1864, rebuilt by Harrison and Harrison, 1936. (taken 12.5.2017) CGC33.jpg Organ:- "HARRISON & HARRISON, / DURHAM & LONDON." (taken 12.5.2017) CGC34.jpg Face on the chancel arch, thought to be Robert de Vaux, 12th century. "HARRISON & HARRISON, / DURHAM & LONDON." (taken 12.5.2017) CGC35.jpg Arch in vestry. (taken 12.5.2017) BOX21.jpg (taken 29.3.2008) BOX20.jpg (taken 29.3.2008)

	CGC36.jpg Drawing by Rev Hancock, 1842. (taken 12.5.2017) CGC37.jpg Drawing by Miss Huthart. (taken 12.5.2017) CGC38.jpg Photographs, 1870s? (taken 12.5.2017) CGC39.jpg Drawing by J Taylor Scott, architect, 1897. (taken 12.5.2017)

hearsay:-	Robert de Vaux gave this church as part of the endowment of Lanercost Priory, 1169.
	Randal Mulcaster, Randie with the Long Sword, who fought on the side of the king in the Civil War, is buried here.
	In the church there is a memorial window to Robert Bowman, died in his 119th year, 1823.

notes:-	A church was established here by the Baron of Gilsland, Robert de Vaux, and his family, between 1157 and 1224. There was major restoration about 1849-51. Another restoation took place in 1896, followed by the donation of a tower, bells, etc, 1897.
	: : church leaflet

	dedication
person:-	: St Kentigern
place:-	Irthington / Carlisle Diocese

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