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St Mary, Mallerstang
St Mary's Chapel
Mallerstang Church
Mallerstang Chapel
Outhgill Church
locality:-   Outhgill
locality:-   Mallerstang
civil parish:-   Mallerstang (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
locality type:-   chapel
coordinates:-   NY78190144
1Km square:-   NY7801
10Km square:-   NY70
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BJR60.jpg (taken 9.8.2005)  
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BJR61.jpg  The plaque over the door is a 1909 copy of the original:-
"THIS CHAPPLE OF MALLERSTANG AFTER IT HAD LAYNE RUINOUS AND DECAYED SOME 50 OR SO YEARS WAS NEWE REPAYRED BY THE LADY ANNE CLIFFORD COUNTESSE DOWAGER OF PEMBROKE. DORSETT & MONTGOMERY IN THE YEAR 1663 WHO ALLSOE ENDOWED THE SAME WITH LANDS WHICH SHE PURCHASED IN CAWTLEY NEAR SEDBERGH TO THE YEARLY VALUE OF ELEAVEN POUNDS FOR EVER. / ISAIAH CHAP.58 VER.12. GODS NAME BE PRAISED." (taken 9.8.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 30 15) 
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 (Per Curacy) / Grave Yard"

evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Mallerstang Chaple
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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MD10NY70.jpg
"Mallerstang Chaple"
Circle, building and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Mall Chapel
placename:-  Mallerstang Chapel
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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SMP2NYQ.jpg
"Mall C."
Building. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
Page 156:-  "..."
"... [Lady Anne Pembroke] repaired the chapel 1663 after it had lain waste and ruinous some 50 or 60 years, endowing it with lands in Cawtley near Sedberg, to the yearly value of £.11. per annum for ever, and in 1714 it was augmented with queen Anne's bounty. ..."

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.
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NUR1NY70.jpg
"MALLERSTANG"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Parish Church of St Mary, Mallerstang, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290? published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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HMW100.jpg
On p.163 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
RCHME no. Wmd, Mallerstang 1 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.100
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BRG10.jpg (taken 3.8.2009)  

 stained glass

 gravestones

 kneelers

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Mary
item:-  bread, charityMiddleton's Charitycharity
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY / / B6259 / MALLERSTANG / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73358 / NY7819201437"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Chapel of Ease, founded C14; extensively rebuilt 1663 for Lady Anne Clifford (renewed inscription over porch door). Restored 1768, 1879 and 1909. Coursed, squared rubble on plinth; buttresses to north and west walls. Graduated slate roof with stone copings and kneelers; chimney and belfry to west end. Single cell with south porch. C17 south door has semicircular head and continuous cavetto moulding. Small 2-light mullioned window to left of porch, 3 semicircular-headed C18 windows to right. Two 3-light C17 windows to north wall; east window 1926 insertion. Interior has panel with Royal coat-of-arms dated 1663 in chancel. Panelled polygonal pulpit, with adjustable reading stand, 1798. Small octagonal font with moulded base and top, 1663. Bread cupboard next to south door for MIDDLETON'S CHARITY, 1784."

incumbents:-  
Jackson, Christopher Preston, Mr  1650 - 1659 ? 
Wright, Rowland  1660 -  
Moore, Robert  1671 -  
Powley, Christopher  1705 -  
Rowlandson, Mr  1707 -  
Potter, John  1707 -  
Langhorne, William  1713 -  
Gasgoine, Thomas  1740 -  
Pattison, Lancelot  1754 -  
Bowness, Jeffrey  1756 -  
Robinson, John  1813 -  
Bird, William  1814 -  
Monkhouse, Robert  1817 -  
Hunter, J F  1818 -  
Fawcett, John  1819 -  
Robinson, Robert  1844 -  
Brunskill, Joseph  1853 -  
Robinson, Robert  1856 -  
Alnwick, Willia,  1877 -  
Simpson, Edwin  1908 -  


photograph
CBC11.jpg  Coat arms, notice initials AP lower right
(taken 11.7.2014)  
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CER02.jpg  Middleton's Charity, for bread.
(taken 7.3.2016)  
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BVU80.jpg  Embroidery, Lady AnnePembroke.
(taken 13.1.2012)  
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BVU82.jpg  Memorial to railway navvies.
(taken 13.1.2012)  

notes:-  
It is possible the church was founded by Lady Idonea de Veteripont in 1311. Existing records show a church here in 1535. It was restored by Lady Anne Pembroke in 1663; restored to meet needs and ecclesiastical fashions in 1879 and 1909; re-roofed in 1989-90.

: : church leaflet

notes:-  
Just by the door is a set of shelves where bread for the poor was left. Bread is still distributed as part fo an 18th century charity.

hearsay:-  
Railway navvies, their women and children, from Birket Huts, Aisgill Huts, Incline Huts, and Far Ground, are buried in the churchyard at St Mary's Church, Mallerstang:-
Sarah Walker, 21 July 1870, age 3 days
Mary Ridley, 8 December 1870, a baby
William Ridley, 29 December 1870, her father
John Whittal, 7 June 1871, age 32
John Bradbury, 1 August 1871, age 33
John Shaw, 21 August 1871, age 30
James Stephenson, 30 May 1872, a baby
Richard Stephenson, 30 May 1872, a baby, twin of James
Hannah Stephenson, 20 July 1872, their mother
Edmund F Driver, 6 September 1872, age 3 weeks
Thomas Wyles, 8 January 1873, age 60
William Morris, 21 November 1873, age 26
Miriam Taylor, 12 December 1873, age 4 months
Louisa Garlick, 13 December 1873, age 2½
Alice Martin, 4 March 1874, age 10 Months
John Stephenson, 9 March 1874, age 47
George Stewart, 28 March 1874, age 38
Sarah Real, 10 May 1874, age 1
Thomas Hayley, 15 May 1874, age 32
Caleb Wright, 20 May 1874, age 23
Henry Clifford, 23 October 1874, age 2
James Woodcock, 24 October 1874, age 16
Ellen Chisholme, 6 December 1874, age 4½
James Bell, 2 April 1875, age 38
John Green, 8 May 1875, age 45

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

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