Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Lawrence, Kirkland

St Lawrence, Kirkland

St Lawrence's Church

Kirkland Church

locality:-

Kirkland

civil parish:-

Culgaith (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY64603253

1Km square:-

NY6432

10Km square:-

NY63

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BMF37.jpg (taken 2.6.2006)
photograph

BTG07.jpg (taken 27.7.2010)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 51 14)
placename:- St Laurence'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. Laurence's Church / Grave Yard / Cross"

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.

NUR1NY63.jpg
"KIRKLAND"
Held in plurality with Culgaith.
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

notes about bells

stained glass

kneelers

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Church of St Lawrence

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE / / / CULGAITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73154 / NY6460832530"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Church, probably dating from C13 but extensively restored in late C19. Nave of snecked rubble with quoins; cavetto moulding to eaves. Chancel of sandstone blocks on chamfered plinth; original cavetto moulding to eaves re-used above 2 courses of C19 masonry. Graduated slate roofs; nave has gabled bellcote to west end and outshut over vestry, chancel has C19 apex cross to east. 2-cell plan with vestry, built with re-used material, on north side and C19 west porch. 4-bay nave has lancet windows; chancel has 2 original lancets and a 2-light C19 window on the north side with a partly-original priest's door between two 2-light C19 windows on the south side. The jambs of the east window are in part original but the tracery is C19. Internally, the wide, pointed chancel arch was extensively re-worked. The C19 roof has crown-posts. The trefoil head of a C13 piscina survives in the south wall of the chancel. C13 effigy of Knight with linen cap and pleated woollen tunic, sword at waist."

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CROSS TO SOUTH OF ST LAWRENCE'S CHURCH / / / CULGAITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73155 / NY6460632509"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Cross, probably medieval. Large plinth block carrying cross rests on stepped base. Cross shaft stands c8 ft high, facing east/west. Rectangular in plan with stop chamfers to corners; parts of the 3 arms remain, radiating from the centre which is pierced by an offset square hole."

evidence:-

old print:- Calverley 1899
item:- cross

source data:-

In the churchyard:-
... a stone cross with steps ...

incumbents:-

Newcastle, Adam de	1294 -
Haloghton, Gilbert de	1306 -
Denton, William de	1336 -
Langholme, John de	1372 -
Penrith, John de	1379 -
Byrkhede, Thomas de	1535 -
Aglionby, Thomas
Gosling, Anthony	1581 -
Robson, John
Slegg, Edward	1631 -
Ardrey, John	1681 -
Todd, Hugh	1684 -
Mayer, Damiel	1685 -
Spooner, Nathaniel	1694 -
Fleming, George	1703 -
Christopherson, John	1717 -
Birkett, Edward	1720 -
Richardson, Henry	1758 -
Gilbanks, Joseph	1785 -
Rice, Richard	1820 -
Huntley, James W	1836 -
Edwards, Anderson	1878 -