Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Mary, Thornthwaite

St Mary, Thornthwaite

St Mary's Church

Thornthwaite Church

locality:-

Thornthwaite

civil parish:-

Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY22642542

1Km square:-

NY2225

10Km square:-

NY22

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BOQ44.jpg (taken 13.2.2008)
photograph

BUH07.jpg (taken 28.3.2011)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 55 16)
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 (Per Curacy)"

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

D4NY22NW.jpg
"Chapel"
church at Thornthwaite
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Bas)
placename:- Thornthwaite Chapel

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.

CT6NY22H.jpg
"Thornthwaite Chapel"
marked by a cross (x).
item:- Armitt Library : 1959.191.4
Image © see bottom of page

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.

NUR1NY22.jpg
"THORNTHWAITE WITH BRAITHWAITE"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

BUH11.jpg Bell.
(taken 28.3.2011)

stained glass

evidence:-

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

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY / / / ABOVE DERWENT / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72091 / NY2264525426"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church. 1831 with additions of 1853 replacing c1760 church on same site. Split slate rubble with angle buttresses, under graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers. 2-bay nave with west gabled porch, and open west bellcote; transepts; single-bay chancel with north vestry. Nave has lancet windows and triple lancet west windows; paired lancets in transepts. Chancel has tripartite east window."
"INTERIOR has open timber roof, common to nave, chancel and trans epts. Figurative stained glass by H. Hughes, London, 1866. White warble wall plaques to Joseph Gibson of Powter Howe, 1810, and John Fisher of Jenkin Hill, 1796. C19 commandment and pater boards. C20 furnishings and fittings."

incumbents:-

Addison, Thomas	1746 - 1792
Lancaster, Joseph	1792 - 1840
Mann, William Moxon	1840 - 1842
Wilkinson, Michael	1843 - 1844
Christie, Charles M	1844 - 1851
Lynn, John Magnus	1851 - 1858
Short, Hugh Martin	1858 - 1880
Lonsdale, Henry	1880 - 1888
Hill, Winfried des Voeux	1889 - 1891
Shaw, George William Hudson	1891 - 1892
Slack, Austin Ainsworth	1892 - 1897
Saunders, Thomas Beckenn Avening	1897 - 1902
Blake, Geoffrey Bernard	1902 - 1903
Maclean, Allan Mackintosh	1904 - 1905
Saunders, T B A	1905 - 1906
Burnett, William R	1907 -

BUH06.jpg (taken 28.3.2011)
photograph

BUH08.jpg (taken 28.3.2011)
photograph

BUH09.jpg Organ made by Harrison and Harrison, Durham.
(taken 28.3.2011)
photograph

BUH10.jpg Makers plate of Harrison and Harrison, Durham.
(taken 28.3.2011)

notes:-

Built 1746 near the site of an earlier church.

dedication

person:-

: St Mary

place:-

Thornthwaite / Carlisle Diocese

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