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| St Mary, Egremont | ||
| St Mary and St Michael's Church | ||
| Egremont Church | ||
| locality:- | Egremont | |
| civil parish:- | Egremont (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church | |
| coordinates:- | NY01091056 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0110 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY01 | |
| references:- | : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5 |
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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 76:- "... The church, dedicated to Saint Mary, has been much modernized; the east end is circular in its centre, with flat wings, each containing two pointed windows, ornamented by a single shaft. ..." |
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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. NUR1NX91.jpg "BIGRIGG WITH EGREMONT" item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St Mary and St Michael |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL / / SOUTH STREET / EGREMONT / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76139 / NY0112410568" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Parish Church. 1881 by T. Lewis Banks (London and Whitehaven) replacing late C12 church, parts of which were incorporated. Western baptistry gift of local Freemasons 1883. Tower raised in 1901 by Oliver &Dodgshun (Carlisle). Hammer-dressed, snecked, sandstone blocks with quoins; moulded plinth, strings, eaves cornice, and pilaster buttresses. Graduated slate roofs with outshuts to either side of chancel; stone copings, kneelers, and apex crosses. Embattled tower to north-west corner, nave with aisles, short transept, and chancel. Early English style. 4-stage tower has panelled door to ground floor; pointed arch-head of 4 orders with foliate capitals to jamb-shafts. Similar 2-order door in gabled porch on south side. Lancet windows, some in chancel and north nave aisle re-used late C12; corbels of similar date to north aisle. Interior: Pointed arches throughout; 5-bay nave arcade carried on columns with foliate capitals. Nave roof carried on corbels. Transept arms separated from nave by 2-bay arcade carried on tall quatrefoil pier. 2-seater sedilia, pillar piscina, and shelf, under wall arcade in chancel. Late C19 fittings. Pulpit of Caen stone with alabaster figures, supported on marble shafts. Kneeling angel supports scalloped font bowl. Drawings and description of earlier church by T. Lewis Banks in C.W.A.A. Transactions, Old Series, Vol. 6, pp163-175." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "ENTRANCE GATES, WALLS AND RAILINGS TO CHURCHYARD OF ST MARY AND ST MICHAEL / / SOUTH STREET / EGREMONT / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76140 / NY0106610564" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Entrance gates to churchyard; late C19 by WILLIAM HEAD ENGINEER EGREMONT (foundry mark on base plates to gate posts). Cast-iron gate posts square in plan, c8 ft high, with Gothic panelling and pyramidal caps. Gates of cast and wrought iron with fleurs-de-lis decoration to ogee arcading; scrollwork. Railings to either side similar, on low coursed rubble walls with chamfered copings." |
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1 cross slab grave cover fragment. |
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| Ryder, Peter: 2001: Cross Slab Grave Covers of Cumbria: Cumbria CC (Carlisle, Cumbria) |
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| notes:- |
Described in:- |
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| Butler, Lawrence (ed): 2011: Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne for Cumbria, 1833-1872:
CWAAS:: ISBN 978 1 873124 52 9 |
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| Extracted from the original notes made by Sir Stephen, now in Deiniol's Library, Hawarden,
Flintshire, contact through Flintshire Record Office |
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 BWK45.jpg Reredos. (taken 16.5.2012)  BWK46.jpg Font. (taken 16.5.2012)  BWK47.jpg Royal coat of arms, George III, 1790. (taken 16.5.2012)  BWK48.jpg Organ, Hill and Son, London. (taken 16.5.2012)  BWK49.jpg Organ, Hill and Son, London. (taken 16.5.2012)  BWK50.jpg Organ, (taken 16.5.2012)  BWK51.jpg Parish chest? (taken 16.5.2012)  BLY61.jpg (taken 24.4.2006) |
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| notes:- |
There was a chapel founded by William de Meschines, alongside his castle, shortly
after 1100. About 1200 this chapel was enlarged to make a parish church by adding
another chapel alongside. One chapel was dedicated to St Mary, the other to St Michael.
A bell tower was added about 1400; rebuilt 1716. The whole was renovated, its design
mutilated, in 1741 and 1752. |
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| The present church was built 1881-83, architect Thomas Lewis Banks, Whitehaven, to
match the beauty of the original twin chapels; the tower was not completed until 20
years later. |
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| : : church leaflet |
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| dedication | ||
| person:- | : St Mary |
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| place:- | Egremont / Carlisle Diocese | |
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