Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Mary, Stapleton

St Mary, Stapleton

St Mary's Church

Stapleton Church

locality:-

Stapleton

civil parish:-

Stapleton (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY50347129

1Km square:-

NY5071

10Km square:-

NY57

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BMQ91.jpg (taken 15.9.2006)
photograph

BMQ92.jpg (taken 15.9.2006)

evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag
item:- Eclogues; Sermons

source data:-

Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.

goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1819 part 1 p.508
From the Compendium of County History:- "Stapleton was the rectory from 1771 till his death in 1796, of William Graham, translator of Virgil's Eclogues, and author of Sermons."

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.

NUR1NY47.jpg
"STAPLETON"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

notes about bells

stained glass

evidence:-

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

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY / / / STAPLETON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 78174 / NY5033971295"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. Dated 1830 over entrance with names of the curate and churchwardens; replacing medieval church and built partly of materials from the old church. Dressed red sandstone on chamfered plinth with flush quoins; graduated slate roof. 3-storey west square tower/porch, 4-bay nave, single-bay chancel. Plank double doors in pointed chamfered surround with hood mould; stepped angle buttresses, tall lancet windows and bell openings with hood moulds; corner pinnacles. Nave has tall lancet windows with hood moulds. Chancel has triple lancet east window. Interior has moulded plaster ceiling; early C20 furnishings and fittings. C17 and C18 heraldic wall plaques; C18 and C19 aedicule wall plaques, mostly from the original church. Font stem is initialled AB, HR, IE, ID and dated 1748; bowl is C19 replacement. See T.E.A. Verity, A History of Stapleton Church &Parish, 1976."

memorials, gravestones, coats of arms

incumbents:-

Mancheton, Gilbert de	1294 -
Leychester, Thomas de	1296 -
Coventry, Nicholas de	1296 -
Stapleton, John de	1323 -
Kirkby, John de	1338 -
Whitebergh, Henry de
Southayke, Robert de	1356 -
Bolton, Robert de	1361 -
Strickland, William de	1368 -
Stapleton, Nicholas de
Hudson, Henry	1603 -
Culcheth, William
Culcheth, Richard	1686 -
Jackson, James	1714 -
Graham, William	1771 -
Pattinson, Thomas	1796 -
Hope, John	1834 -
Goss, Thomas	1867 -
Calvert, Thomas	1869 -
Fell, Thomas	1873 -
Armstrong, Thomas	1898 -
Hindle, Elijah	1899 -
Verity, Charles Arundel	1910 -

BMQ96.jpg The 'vicar's view', as it says in the guide leaflet:-
"The clear glass East window affords an interesting vista to the officiating clergyman ... a scene of unspoiled rural Cumbria - an electricity transformer, a silage clamp and a slurry tank." (taken 15.9.2006)
photograph

CEN07.jpg Plaque.
(taken 25.1.2016)
photograph

BSE74.jpg (taken 19.2.2010)

CEN13.jpg Churchwarden's wand.
(taken 25.1.2016)
photograph

CEN14.jpg Churchwarden's wand.
(taken 25.1.2016)
photograph

CEN15.jpg Churchwarden's wand.
(taken 25.1.2016)

CEN16.jpg Pews.
(taken 25.1.2016)
photograph

CEN17.jpg Pews, patent umbrella stand.
(taken 25.1.2016)
photograph

CEN18.jpg Pews, patent umbrella stand:-
"J. ROWLAND'S PATENT" (taken 25.1.2016)
photograph

CEN19.jpg Pews.
(taken 25.1.2016)

notes:-

A rector, Gilbert de Mancheton, was granted sick leave in 1294, but what church there was is uncertain. An 'old' church was close by in 1598. In 1702 Bishop Nicholson wrote:-

".. The Quire here is most intolerably scandalous. No Glass in the Windows: No Ascent to anything that looks like an Altar; no Flooring; no Seats ... the Body of the Church in as nasty a pickle as the Quire. The Roof is so miserably shatter'd and broken, that it cannot be safe sitting under it in stormy weather, ..."

A new church was built in 1829-31. It is built on sand, and an earthquake 26 December 1979 dislodged the pinnacles of its tower.

: : church leaflet

hearsay:-

It is said that one potential incumbent of the church was offered the living in the following terms:-

"You can have it young man, if you can find it."

dedication

person:-

: St Mary

place:-

Stapleton / Carlisle Diocese

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