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| St Leonard, Cleator | ||
| St Leonard's Church | ||
| Cleator Church | ||
| locality:- | Cleator | |
| civil parish:- | Cleator Moor (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church | |
| coordinates:- | NY01421347 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0113 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY01 | |
| references:- | : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 16) placename:- St Leonard's Church |
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| 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. Leonard's Church (Per Curacy) / Grave Yard" |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) |
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| 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 sourcePage 79:- "..." "[Cleator] ... The Church at this village, owing to its delapidated condition, is to be rebuilt forthwith." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Nurse 1918 |
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| 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. NUR1NY01.jpg "CLEATOR" item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BSI34.jpg The bells. (taken 19.3.2010) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St Leonard |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST LEONARD / / CHURCH STREET / CLEATOR MOOR / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76103 / NY0142213468" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Parish Church. C12 chancel, raised in late C18; rest of church rebuilt 1841. Western baptistry, north porch, and vestry added c1903 (date in spandrels to porch door) by J.H. Martindale (Carlisle). Chancel: sandstone blocks on chamfered plinth with pilaster buttresses and blocking,course; rest snecked rubble with stepped buttresses and castellated parapets. Graduated slate roofs with apex crosses to stone copings; gabled bellcote to west end, over porch. Corniced octagonal stone chimneys to vestry on north side. Nave with western baptistry and north porch; lower chancel. Windows to chancel's side walls original; triple lancets to east end possibly C19. All other windows early C20 copies of C16 windows (traceried to west end and south side). 2 segment-headed arches open onto north porch; vestry door to east, porch door (with inscription above) to west, and stone bench along nave wall. Interior: 4-bay nave with hammer-beam roof; chancel has foliate bosses to wooden barrel vault. 4-centred arches to baptistry and chancel have Gothic panelling to reveals. Medieval piscina in chancel; Gothic wainscoting possibly C19. Mural stair on south side of nave to polygonal carved stone pulpit. Font possibly C17 with hexagonal bowl on column carried on octagonal plinth. Stained glass by Heaton, Butler & Bayne (London) and Abbott &Co. (London and Lancaster). Nave and choir seating c1906." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "LYCH GATE AND QUADRANT WALLS TO CHURCH OF ST LEONARD / / CHURCH STREET / CLEATOR MOOR / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76104 / NY0142213489" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Lych gate and quadrant walls to churchyard entrance; c1903 by J.H. Martindale (Carlisle). Snecked rubble wall c3 ft high with chamfered coping, ramped to corners. Braced wooden superstructure to gate stands on battered stone plinths; graduated slate roof with gablets. Double wooden gate. Wall topped by 18 ins high wrought-iron railings with scrollwork decoration; corners topped by cast-iron lamp supports. Included for group value." |
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2 cross slab grave covers. |
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| Ryder, Peter: 2001: Cross Slab Grave Covers of Cumbria: Cumbria CC (Carlisle, Cumbria) |
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| dedication | ||
| person:- | : St Leonard |
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| place:- | Cleator / Carlisle Diocese | |
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