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St Mary, Harrington
St Mary's Church
Harrington Church
Street:-   St Mary's Court
Street:-   Church Road
locality:-   Harrington
civil parish:-   Workington (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NX99422569
1Km square:-   NX9925
10Km square:-   NX92
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


photograph
BNQ21.jpg (taken 14.5.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 61 3) 
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.
"Church (Rectory) / 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.
image
NUR1NX92.jpg
"HARRINGTON"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Mary
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY / / CHURCH ROAD / WORKINGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72256 / NX9942625701"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church. 1885 on medieval site with 1905-7 tower. Quarry-faced pink St Bees sandstone with calciferous sandstone quoins and red sandstone dressings. Graduated Welsh slate roof with coped gables and cross finial. 6-bay nave with square 3-storey west tower and 4-bay chancel with north vestry. Tower/porch has roll-moulded west doorway with 2-light ground-floor Tudor-style windows and 3-light Tudor bell openings. Corbelled battlemented parapet with angle water spouts. Nave and chancel have Y-tracery windows. Interior of porch has C14 octagonal font with later incised date 1634. Royal Arms dated 1810. Reused C12 tower arch. Nave has 2 medieval graveslabs built into north wall. Open timber roof. Late C19 and early C20 stained glass. Fragment of C10 cross."

:-  
4 cross slab grave covers; set in inside walls.

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


photograph
CFK73.jpg  Gravestone:-
"... / JOHN ROSS, / MASTER MARINER, ' WHOI DIED OF FEVER, MARCH 13[TH.] 1865. / IN BOTTA ROADS, BRASS RIVER, AFRICA, / AGED 41 YEARS. / ..." (taken 2.9.2016)  

dedication
person:-    : St Mary
place:-   Harrington / Carlisle Diocese

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