Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Mary and St Michael, Great Urswick

St Mary and St Michael, Great Urswick

St Mary and St Michael's Church

Urswick Church

locality:-

Great Urswick

civil parish:-

Urswick (formerly Lancashire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

locality type:-

runic inscription

coordinates:-

SD26847419

1Km square:-

SD2674

10Km square:-

SD27

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BRE04.jpg (taken 31.7.2009)
photograph

BRE21.jpg (taken 31.7.2009)

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.

NUR1SD27.jpg
"URSWICK"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

stained glass - coats of arms

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Church of St Mary and St Michael

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL / / / URSWICK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / I / 75884 / SD2684474191"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. West tower C13, upper stage Perpendicular; chancel C13, lengthened C14; nave C14; vestry C14. Stone rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Tower has pointed west entrance with 3-light, Perpendicular window above and C15 Picta in niche; 3-light straight-headed louvred bell-openings; coped embattled parapet. 4-bay nave has gabled south porch with round-arched entrance, the inner door has relief panels dated 1909; quatrefoil above porch; 2-light Decorated windows with hood mould and stops and 2-light single- chamfered-mullioned window. North elevation has 2-light straight-headed windows with pointed lights. Chancel has coped gable and cross, 3-light east window has transom and flowing tracery; to south a lancet and 2-light window with flowing tracery flank pointed entrance; to north a 2-light Perpendicular window and vestry gabled to each and west with 2-light windows. South elevation has attached headstones of C18 and early C19. Interior: Roof 1598 (dated tie beam with initials) kingposts with arch braces and struts, butt purlins to north. West gallery 1828 on Tuscan columns paired in depth. C19 font and medieval font with rich cover dated 1921. Tower entrance has door made from decorative fragments. C18 3-decker pulpit and reconstructed pew to south side. Unchamfered chancel arch has niches to jambs and rood beam with angel supporters to cross and 2 saints, by A. Millar of Guild of Handicrafts, 1910. Also by Guild the richly decorated organ case, east panelling and reredos with C18 Last Supper, stalls, vestry door, south door, pulpit tester and credence table, etc. Chancel also has pillar piscina, squint and C18 brass floor plates and C13 grave slab. Nave has C19 and C20 stained glass; chancel has C19 and medieval armorial stained glass and fragments."

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Gale Monument

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"GALE MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 23.5 METRES SOUTH OF ST MARY'S CHURCH / / / URSWICK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75886 / SD2682374154"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Monument in square enclosure. Early C19. Ashlar. Enclosure has low wall, railings and gate missing. Square plinth has square sarcophagus with urn finial. Oval panels record members of the Gale family, dates of death 1816-1903."

ring of bells

cross slab gravestones

evidence:-

old print:- Jopling 1843

source data:-

Print, St Mary and St Michael's Church, Urswick, Lancashire, by Charles M Jopling, published by Whittaker and Co, Ave Maria Lane, London and by Stephen Soulby, Ulverston, Cumberland, 1843.

click to enlarge
JP1E10.jpg
On p.47 of a Sketch of Furness and Cartmel, by Charles M Jopling.
item:- Armitt Library : A1636.11
Image © see bottom of page

incumbents:-

Fleming, Daniel le	1160 -
Boyvill, William de	1230 -
Melmerby, William de	1260 -
Barnard Castle, Richard de	1297 -
John	1351 -
Fisher, John	1361 -
Normand, William	1380 -
Walton, William
Woodhouse, John	1445 -
Harrsion, Thomas	1535 -
Hartley, Thomas
Sawrey, William	1546 -
Woodburn, Henry	1554 -
Dobson, Thomas	1557 -
Sawrey, William	1562 -
Sayer, James	1579 -
Lindow, William	1585 -
Marshall, Nicholas	1620 -
Inman, George	1660 -
Inman, Thomas	1681 -
Swainson, Richard	1696 -
Holme, Henry	1714 -
Addison, John	1747 -
Ashburner, William	1788 -
Bailes, John	1800 -
Ponsonby, William	1805 -
Forrest, Matthias	1841 -
Gale, James	1861 -
Billinge, Robert Burland	1878 -
Postlethwaite, Thomas Norton	1903 -

scratch dial

sundial

notes:-

Described in:-

Butler, Lawrence (ed): 2011: Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne for Cumbria, 1833-1872: CWAAS:: ISBN 978 1 873124 52 9

Extracted from the original notes made by Sir Stephen, now in Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Flintshire, contact through Flintshire Record Office

BRE14.jpg Three decker pulpit.
(taken 31.7.2009)
photograph

BRE15.jpg Organ, by Wilkinson, Kendal? carving by Alec Miller, Chipping Camden Guild of Craftsmen, 1910s.
(taken 31.7.2009)
photograph

BRE24.jpg Organ, carving detail.
(taken 31.7.2009)
photograph

BVQ86.jpg Organ, carving detail with coat of arms and signature:-
"A Miller 1910" (taken 11.11.2011)
photograph

BRE25.jpg Organ, carving detail, a portative organ.
(taken 31.7.2009)
photograph

BVQ87.jpg Mothers Union banner.
(taken 11.11.2011)
photograph

BVQ89.jpg Memorial and coat of arms, Malachi James Cranke, died 1909
(taken 11.11.2011)
photograph

CCI78.jpg Old key.
(taken 5.2.2015)
photograph

BRE10.jpg Faculty for John Addison to be curate here, 1743.
(taken 31.7.2009)
photograph

BMJ68.jpg Carving, Mater Dolorosa, said to be from Furness Abbey.
(taken 10.7.2006)
photograph

BRE26.jpg (taken 31.7.2009)
photograph

BRE27.jpg (taken 31.7.2009)

BRE11.jpg The Tunwini Cross.
(taken 31.7.2009)
photograph

BRE12.jpg The Tunwini Cross.
(taken 31.7.2009)
photograph

BMJ67.jpg The Tunwini Cross; W G Collingwood interpreted the runes:-
"This cross Tunwini erected in memory of Torhtred a monument to his Lord pray for the [his] soul" (taken 10.7.2006)
photograph

BVQ84.jpg Drawing of a cross, by Collingwood.
(taken 11.11.2011)

BVQ85.jpg Watercolour, early 20th century?
(taken 11.11.2011)

notes:-

It is suggested that there might have been a church here from the 9th century, or even earlier. The monks at Furness Abbey claimed patronage of Urswick church before 1148. There were various addition, the tower is pre-norman; the chancel and porch in the norman period; the nave newly roofed in 1598; the vestry in the early 17th century, rebuilt 1850; major works in the early 20th century.

: : church leaflet

hearsay:-

The local people have a rushbearing procession on the feast day of St Michael, 29 September.

dedication

person:-

: St Mary the Virgin

person:-

: St Michael

place:-

Urswick / Carlisle Diocese

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