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St Margaret and St James, Long Marton
St Margaret's and St James's Church
Long Marton Church
locality:-   Broom
locality:-   Long Marton
civil parish:-   Long Marton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY66652399
1Km square:-   NY6623
10Km square:-   NY62
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

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BNS71.jpg (taken 29.5.2007)  
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BRE86.jpg (taken 3.8.2009)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 9 6) 
placename:-  St Margaret'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 Margaret's Church (rectory) / Grave Yard / Tithe Barn"
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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J5NY62SE.jpg
"Ch."
church 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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CY24NY62.jpg
church symbol; church or chapel 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page
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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NUR1NY62.jpg
"LONG MARTON"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Long Marton the Parish Church of St Margaret and St James, Long Marton, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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HMW104.jpg
On p.168 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  "LONG MARTON The PARISH CHURCH of / ST. MARGARET &ST. JAMES"
RCHME no. Wmd, Long Marton 1 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.104
Image © see bottom of page

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BSH21.jpg  Bells.
(taken 12.3.2010)  

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BRE84.jpg  Bells.
(taken 3.8.2009)  
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BRE85.jpg  Bells.
(taken 3.8.2009)  
 stained glass
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Margaret and St James
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARGARET AND ST JAMES / / / LONG MARTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 73183 / NY6665823992"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. Nave's north and west walls, with at least part of the south wall, are pre-conquest; tower added probably early C12, chancel extended C12, south chapel added mid C15 and vestry C16. restored late C19. Early masonry of coursed blocks with wide jointing. Long-and-short quoining to north-east corner of nave stands proud; render to west wall suriving inside C19 gallery's stair turret may be original. Later masonry of finer cut blocks, sometimes snecked; chamfered plinth and string courses to east end. Graduated slate roofs with stone copings. West tower, nave, and chancel. Various window types, mostly mullioned; pre-conquest window with monolithic semicircular head to north side of nave (blocked internally). Paired belfry opening on north side of 3-stage tower is original, others are C19 reconstructions. Gabled south porch repaired 1880. Only west doorway, now opening into tower, is pre-conquest with rebates and draw-bar slot to its inner jambs; south doorway cut through at later date. Their carved tympana (possibly pre-conquest) were reset in their present position during C19 restoration; west door's tympanum discovered when access for present west gallery was constructed. North doorway (part-blocked) C12. South chancel door mid C14, as is 2-seater sedilia and piscina in south side of chancel."
evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  tympanum
source data:-   Tympanum, south door and at west door:-
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Sketch by W G Collingwood; sketch copied from J A Cory. 
item:-  JandMN : 190
Image © see bottom of page
 cross slab gravestones
hearsay:-  
 The tympanum over the porch door illustrates the story of St Margaret of Antioch in the 3rd century. Margaret's father was a pagan priest at Antioch. She became a Christian, and in revenge the pagans had her swallowed by Satan in the from of a dragon, which she killed when she burst out of its side. Later she was beheaded.

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BNS74.jpg  Tympanum over the door in the porch.
(taken 29.5.2007)  
The tympanum is carved in sandstone, easily carved easily weathered, but the images are still visible. On the left stands a winged ox in a boat, a vision of St James; lower right is the dragon with a knotted tail; above is a winged shield and sword.
The typanum over the west door has a half man half fish on the left, another vision of St James; and on the right another dragon.

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BSH20.jpg  Tympanum over west door.
(taken 12.3.2010)  
Both the carving are saxon, and said to have been carved by a Yorkshire man.

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BRE92.jpg  Coat of arms.
(taken 3.8.2009)  
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BRE89.jpg  Organ.
(taken 3.8.2009)  
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BRE90.jpg  Organ, maker's label:-
"(CASSON'S PATENT) / POSITIVE ORGAN CO. LTD. / LONDON. / Op. 74" (taken 3.8.2009)  
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BSH18.jpg  Organ.
(taken 12.3.2010)  
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BSH22.jpg  Organ.
(taken 12.3.2010)  
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BRE87.jpg  Chest.
(taken 3.8.2009)  
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BRE88.jpg  Chest.
(taken 3.8.2009)  
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BSH17.jpg  Chest.
(taken 12.3.2010)  
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BRE91.jpg  Jigsaw puzzle.
(taken 3.8.2009)  
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BQR23.jpg  Gravestone:-
"in remembrance of / WILLIAM BELLASIS, / ONE OF THE OFFICERS OF THE SHIP SCALEBY CASTLE / WHO WAS BORN OCTOBER 29 1777 AT LONG MARTON / [ ] DIED AT SEA ON A VOYAGE TO THE EAST INDIES / APRIL 7 1800 IN LAT 2 30 NORTH LONG 23 43 WEST ..." (taken 1.6.2009)  
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CCN50.jpg  Gate catch.
(taken 27.2.2015)  
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BNS72.jpg  Bench marks!
(taken 29.5.2007)  
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BSH14.jpg (taken 12.3.2010)  
MN photo:-  
 Gravestone with added funerary plates; George Bellasis and sisters, etc.

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BSH15.jpg (taken 12.3.2010)  
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BSH16.jpg (taken 12.3.2010)  

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BNS73.jpg  Drawing of the church by Thomas Bland, Reagill, about 1850?
(taken 29.5.2007)  
notes:-  
 It is believed that the stone church, a nave and chancel, was built by Ranulph de Meschines before 1120, replacing an earlier wooden church. The chancel was lengthened and a tower added at the west end in the late 12th century; a vestry and south transept were added, and the roof raised, in the 15th century; restoration was done in 1880, architect John Cory; roof repairs were made in 1939.
There are two saxon tympanums, from an early building, kept in the church.

Winterburn, G H: 1983 (about): Long Marton, A Story of a Fellside Parish and its Early Norman Church
dedication
person:-    : St Margaret
person:-    : St James
place:-   Long Marton / Carlisle Diocese
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