Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Mary, Gilcrux

St Mary, Gilcrux

St Mary's Church

Gilcrux Church

locality:-

Gilcrux

civil parish:-

Gilcrux (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY11733817

1Km square:-

NY1138

10Km square:-

NY13

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BOU12.jpg (taken 14.3.2008)
photograph

CGF66.jpg (taken 23.6.2017)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 45 4)
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 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.

NUR1NY13.jpg
"GILCRUX"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

BRB40.jpg Church bell.
(taken 10.7.2009)

stained glass

evidence:-

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

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY / / / GILCRUX / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 411485 / NY1173438176"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. Early C12 with late C12 additions, early C14 and C15 alterations. Restoration 1878. Squared blocks of mixed red and St Bees sandstone, with angle buttresses. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finials. 3-bay nave with 2-bay south aisle adjoining porch. West open bellcote of 1724. 2-bay chancel with C19 north vestry. Nave has C13 blocked north door and 2-light windows of 1878. Blank buttressed west wall. Aisle has original 2-light C13 windows and one single light restored in C19. Chancel has blocked priest's doorway and one original lancet. C16 2-light south and east windows. Carved head set in gable. Sundial over porch dated 1836 with inscribed churchwardens' names. Interior has round-arched arcade on circular piers, that to west suggesting the arcade was intended to continue for full length of nave. Aumbry recess in south wall. Very narrow C12 round-headed chancel arch with enlarged squint. Royal arms on north wall dated 1759. C12 cushion font. Medieval grave-slab and cross fragments. Chancel has original splay for north window and aumbry recess. C20 stained-glass east window. Creed and pater boards dated 1832 (one board missing). C20 furnishings and fittings."

evidence:-

old print:- Calverley 1899
item:- cross

source data:-

Represented by a plaster cast in the church, the original lost:-

4 cross slab grave covers; one used as gate stone.

Ryder, Peter: 2001: Cross Slab Grave Covers of Cumbria: Cumbria CC (Carlisle, Cumbria)

One is said to be used as a lintel in a chancel window; one is now the gate stoup of the 'small' church gate..

incumbents:-

Ireby, William de	1260 -
Lestoson, John	1334 -
Kirkby, William de	1368 -
Irland, Richard de	1371 -
Fonward, Adam	1385 -
Pomfret, Robert de	1385 -
Breykys, Richard	1535 -
Milner, William	1565 -
Trowhere, Thomas	1565 -
Dover, Thomas	1589 -
Banks, Nicholas	1611 -
Cooke, Edward	1611 -
Murthwaite, Peter	1664 -
Murthwaite, Richard	1675 -
Murthwaite, Peter	1704 -
Hobson, Thomas	1736 -
Walker, William	1737 -
Sharpe, Anthony	1762 -
Sharpe, Henry F	1794 -
Cowen, John	1820 -
Irving, Jonathan	1824 -
Parsable, William	1826 -
Whitelock, Joseph H	1837 -
Pigott, John Cornell	1881 -
Smith, George H H	1901 -

sundial

CGF67.jpg Arcade, late 12th century.
(taken 23.6.2017)
photograph

CGF68.jpg Royal coat of arms.
(taken 23.6.2017)
photograph

CGF69.jpg (taken 27.8.2009)

hearsay:-

The church was begun in the late 11th early 12th century.

dedication

person:-

: St Mary

place:-

Gilcrux / Carlisle Diocese

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