Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Mary, Dalton-in-Furness

St Mary, Dalton-in-Furness

St Mary's Church

Dalton-in-Furness Church

locality:-

Dalton-in-Furness

civil parish:-

Dalton Town with Newton (formerly Lancashire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

SD22577388

1Km square:-

SD2273

10Km square:-

SD27

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BUT60.jpg (taken 18.6.2011)
photograph

BUT36.jpg (taken 18.6.2011)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16 13)
placename:- St Mary'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. Mary's Church (Vicarage) / Grave Yard"

evidence:-

old text:- Capper 1808
item:- organ

source data:-

Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published 1808-29.

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"[Dalton-in-Furness] ... The church is an ancient building, but very neat, and has lately received the addition of an organ, erected by subscription. ..."

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.

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Page 6:- "... [Dalton]"
"... The church, dedicated to our Lady, has since 1835 been nearly rebuilt. ..."

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
"DALTON"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

stained glass, all

evidence:-

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

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY / / CHURCH STREET / DALTON TOWN WITH NEWTON / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 388429 / SD2258073886"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Church on site of earlier church. 1882-5. By Paley and Austin. Snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings, graduated green slate roof. 6-bay nave with separately-roofed aisles; 3-stage tower over west end of nave, porches to north and south; 2-bay chancel with north vestry and south chapel. Gothic Revival style with Decorated tracery. Chamfered plinth; iron gutter brackets; chequerwork to parapets, over the porches and over east and west windows; roll-moulded copings to the gables and parapets. South aisle: offset buttresses to east end and between 2 pairs of 4-light windows having differing tracery, pointed arches and hoodmoulds. South porch (now opening into church centre of 1980) is hexagonal and vaulted: buttresses at each angle; moulded inner doorway with ballflowers; parapet. North aisle is longer having an extra bay to east with organ chamber lit by lozenge windows; adjacent 3-light aisle window (reused from earlier church) has taller, yellow sandstone surround and hoodmould with head-carved stops. Stack to east gable of aisle. North porch is 3-sided with enriched arch, buttresses and ashlar roof. Nave west window, in base of tower, is of 3-lights with stepped transom; chequer panel and traceried, square window above. Tower: setback buttresses flank louvred, 3-light belfry openings with pointed arches and hoodmoulds set within flushwork panels; string course beneath embattled parapet; octagonal vice to south-west corner rises higher. Chancel is under same roofline as nave: offset buttresses flank 6-light east window having 2 King mullions linked by transom, ogee-headed lights, cusped hexafoil and hoodmould. Gable has slit and apex cross. South chapel: small, semi-octagonal projection between 2 pairs of 2-light windows (reused from earlier church and of yellow sandstone); 2-light window to east; parapet to lean-to roof; square, quatrefoiled windows to the chancel. North vestry: ogee-headed door under round arch; traceried cross-window; 2-light east window."
"INTERIOR: western bay of nave, beneath tower, has arches to 3 sides springing from polygonal-based piers; half arches to the aisles. 5-bay arcades with octagonal piers, moulded capitals, double-chamfered arches and linked hoodmoulds. Broad, moulded chancel arch against which are a flying buttress across east end of north aisle and a pointed arch to the organ chamber. 2 arches into south chapel. Sedilia; carved reredos with alabaster insets. Nave and chancel have a barrel ceiling with bow-string trusses; those to the chancel with tracery and ogee-headed openings. C14 font beneath tower with crozier on shield and 7 pairs of shields on the other sides. c1885 semi-octagonal wooden pulpit on base corbelled from chancel-arch pier (gift of Edward Wadham of Millwood). Stained glass: C15 fragments in north porch. Mid-late C19 glass includes: north-aisle window, the gift of Henry Schneider in memory of his wife Augusta (d.1862); east window given by the Duke of Devonshire in memory of his son Lord Frederick Cavendish; 2 windows in south aisle by Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster; Baldwin memorial windows in south chapel, c1870. Monuments: various C19 wall monuments at west end of aisles. In south chapel are several to the Baldwin and Atkinson families: to Eliz. Baldwin d.1848 by W Audby of York; to Wm Atkinson d.1821 by Webster of Kendal. Paley and Austin built this, 'one of their most spectacular churches' (Pevsner), on the impressive site of the former parish church, cleared away in 1883. The cost of "11,553 defrayed by the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Buccleuch and others. The new church re-established the importance of Dalton following the formation of the Borough of Barrow in Furness with its many new places of worship. [bullet] Dent E: The Parish Church: Dalton in Furness, A History: 1985- [bullet] Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Lancashire: London: 1969-: 111-112 [bullet] Walton J E: Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1983-: 36-39"

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"GRAVESTONE TO GEORGE ROMNEY APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY / / CHURCH STREET / DALTON TOWN WITH NEWTON / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388430 / SD2259773874"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Graveslab on plinth. 1802, restored 1895 by Miles of Ulverston (Ayre). Slate slab on limestone plinth. Slab bears short Latin inscription to George Romney died 15.11.1802. Moulded plinth reads 'THIS MEMORIAL WAS RESTORED BY JOHN ORDE ROMNEY OF WHITESTOCK HALL IN THIS COUNTY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1895'. George Romney was born nearby at Beckside on 15.12.1734 and became 3rd of the fashionable portrait painters in the time of Reynolds and Gainsborough. (Walton J E: Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1983-: PL 42; Waterhouse E: Dictionary of British C18 Painters in Oils and Crayons: 1981-: 317-318; Rev Canon Ayre: North Lonsdale Magazine: Ulverston: 1896-: 59)."

ring of bells

evidence:-

old print:- Jopling 1843
item:- font

source data:-

Print, font at St Mary's Church, Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, by Charles M Jopling, published by Whittaker and Co, Ave Maria Lane, London and by Stephen Soulby, Ulverston, Cumberland, 1843.

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JP1E07.jpg
On p.32 of a Sketch of Furness and Cartmel, by Charles M Jopling.
item:- Armitt Library : A1636.8
Image © see bottom of page

incumbents:-

Gilbert of Dalton	1181 - 1185
Norhampton, William de	1198 -
Cockerham, William	1331 - before
Spoffort, Richard	1423 - before
Hartington, Robert	1473 - before
Pele, Roger - Pyle, Roger ?	1547 - before
Wright, Roland
Leis, James	1558 -
Gardiner, Richard
Bowett, William	1617 -
Tomlinson, Richard	1631 -
Whitehead, Thomas	1662 -
Turner, Anthony	1663 -
Lodge, William
Walker, John	1756 -
Cowperthwaite, Christopher	1772 -
Kirkbank, Joseph	1823 -
Morgan, James Morrison	1849 -
Byard, Frank	1898 -
Leonard, John G	1895 -

BUT59.jpg (taken 18.6.2011)

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

BMO43.jpg Coat arms.
(taken 10.7.2006)
photograph

BUT37.jpg Parish chest,
"17 M D 20" (taken 18.6.2011)
photograph

BUT38.jpg Organ, by Ainscough, Preston.
(taken 18.6.2011)
photograph

BUT41.jpg "AINSCOUGH / ORGAN BUILDER / PRESTON." (taken 18.6.2011)
photograph

CEI93.jpg "Font, from Furness Abbey." (taken 20.11.2015)
photograph

CEI92.jpg "Mothers Union banner." (taken 20.11.2015)
photograph

CEI94.jpg "Banner." (taken 20.11.2015)
photograph

CEI95.jpg "War memorial plaque." (taken 20.11.2015)
photograph

BUT39.jpg Memorial to William Atkinson, died 1821.
(taken 18.6.2011)
photograph

CEI96.jpg Coat of arms, on Atkinson memorial.
(taken 20.11.2015)

BUT42.jpg The old church before demolition, 1883; and the school.
(taken 18.6.2011)

notes:-

The church here is mentioned in a deed of Furness Abbey, 1181, but may predate the abbey itself, perhaps as early as the mid 11th century. The church was rebuilt in 1882-83, Paley and Austin the architects.

: : church leaflet
Dent, Geoffrey &Dent, Eileen: 2007: History of St Mary's Church and Parish Dalton-in-Furness

Paley and Austin series

person:-

architect
: Paley, Edward G

person:-

architect
: Austin, Hubert J

date:-

1883
to 1885

New church in a free decorated style.

personal

person:-

artist
: Romney, George

place:-

burial place

BUT33.jpg "Geogius Romney Armiger / Pictor Celeberrimus / Obiit Nov. 15 1802 / ..."

dedication

person:-

: St Mary

place:-

Dalton in Furness / Carlisle Diocese

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