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St Mary, Thrimby
St Mary's Church
Thrimby Church
Little Strickland Church
locality:-   Little Strickland
civil parish:-   Little Strickland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY56251973
1Km square:-   NY5619
10Km square:-   NY51
SummaryText:-   Described as St Mary's Church, Thrimby in Little Strickland.
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

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BMD70.jpg (taken 30.5.2006)  
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BMD71.jpg (taken 30.5.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 2) 
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 Yd."
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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J5NY52SE.jpg
church 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
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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NUR1NY52.jpg
"GREAT STRICKLAND WITH THRIMBY"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

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BVW32.jpg  The bell.
(taken 3.2.2012)  
 stained glass
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Mary
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY / / / LITTLE STRICKLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74325 / NY5625319734"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. 1814. Roughcast walls with V-jointed red sandstone quoins, on chamfered plinth, under graduated greenslate roof. 3-bay nave/chancel with west open bellcote and west porch. Porch has pointed-arched doorway and double pointed-arched windows. Nave has large 2-light pointed-arched windows. No east window. Interior has flat timber ceiling. C20 creed and pater boards. Pews are made of cut-down remains of the panelled pews from Thrimby Chapel, which this church replaced, and some panels are inscribed: T.T. [16]96, E&MB 1721, RH 1700, T&EH, I.H. 1696, WP, IL 1724, T.F.M. and E&M B William Beetham 1721. Latin inscribed stone dated 1695 from the former chapel is also in this church. See RCHM, Westmorland, 1936, pp.221-2."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GATE PIERS AND OVERTHROW AT CHURCHYARD ENTRANCE WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY / / / LITTLE STRICKLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74326 / NY5623619722"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Gate piers and overthrow at churchyard entrance. Early C19. Pink sandstone ashlar and wrought iron. Square rusticated piers on chamfered plinth, with shaped caps. Serpentine overthrow brackets supporting oil-lamp bracket, now with Victorian gas lamp, converted to electricity. Adjoining walls are not of interest. Listed for group value with Church of St Mary."
MN photo:-  
 The pews are made of re-used timber from the pews of the old chapel, and perhaps from other sources? Some of the timber has initial and date inscriptions similar to those found on spice cupboards, in the style of a datestone.

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CDP41.jpg (taken 24.7.2015)  
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CDP34.jpg  Inscribed:-
"H / T E / I H / 1696" (taken 24.7.2015)  
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CDP35.jpg  Inscribed:-
"R H / 1700" (taken 24.7.2015)  
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CDP36.jpg  Inscribed:-
"F / T M" (taken 24.7.2015)  
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CDP37.jpg  Inscribed:-
"B / E M / 1721" (taken 24.7.2015)  
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CDP38.jpg  Inscribed:-
"B / E M / WILLIAMM / BEATHAM / 1721" (taken 24.7.2015)  
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CDP39.jpg  Inscribed:-
"W P / I L / 1724" (taken 24.7.2015)  
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CDP40.jpg  Inscribed:-
"T T / 96" (taken 24.7.2015)  
Most of the panels, shown upright here, are set sideways in the pew back.

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BVW33.jpg  Banner.
(taken 3.2.2012)  
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BMD72.jpg  Banner, map of Little Strickland.
(taken 30.5.2006)  
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CDP42.jpg  Gate piers etc.
(taken 24.7.2015)  
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CDP43.jpg  Lamp.
(taken 24.7.2015)  
notes:-  
 There was a chapel near Thrimby Hall Farm in 1684, opposite the houses called Chapel View. It was a chapel of ease to the parish church of Morland. This chapel was restored by Thomas Fletcher, 1686, and a Lancelot Sisson, the curate wrote some verses in Latin to commemorate the restoration:-
"EXPRIMIT UNDE DEI LAUDES LOCUS HICCE BEATUS?
QUIS DEDIT HUIC FORMAN QUI MODO PULVIS ERAT?
ARMIGER EFFECIT FLETCHAR STRICKLANDICUS OLIM
PRAESIDIUM PATRIAE, LEGIBUS ALTUS HONOS
QUI FUIT OBIT FATIS CONCEDIMUS IMNES
FATA AT NULLA PREMANT HOC PIETATIS OPUS
T.D. L.D. 1695 L.S."
The chapel was demolished 1812, and the present church built, 1813 and became the parish church of Thrimby. The inscribed stone was moved here, and is built into a wall of the porch at the west end of the church. The verses translated:-
"How comes this House of Prayer to declare the praise of God?
Who has restored the delapidated fabric?
It was the work of Fletcher Esquire, recently of Strickland,
A bulwark of his fatherland, an ornament of the law,
Who, alas, is dead: We all submit to the Fates,
But may no Fate efface his labour of love.
T.D. L.D. 1695 L.S."

: : church leaflet
dedication
person:-    : St Mary
place:-   Thrimby / Carlisle Diocese
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