Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Michael, Ainstable


	St Michael, Ainstable
	St Michael and All Angels Church
	Ainstable Church
locality:-	Ainstable
civil parish:-	Ainstable (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	church
coordinates:-	NY53004672
1Km square:-	NY5346
10Km square:-	NY54
references:-	: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

	BNI64.jpg (taken 9.3.2007) BNI65.jpg (taken 9.3.2007)

evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 32 9) placename:- St Michael'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 Michael's Church (Vicarage) / 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. NUR1NY54.jpg "AINSTABLE" linked with Armathwaite item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page

	notes about bells

	stained glass

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St Michael
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL / / / AINSTABLE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73428 / NY5300346725"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Church. 1872 by G Watson, on site of medieval church. Hammer dressed red sandstone, slate roof with coped gables, cross finial and decorative ridge tiles. 4 bay nave with south transcept; 2 bay chancel. Nave has 2 triplets of closely set lancets; transcept has double lancets with circular window and plate tracery above. Chancel has double and single lancets with hood moulds. Interior, Norman pillar piscina with decorated shaft; heraldic graveslab to John Denton, c1390; effigies of John Aglionby and Katherine Denton, 1428, brought from St Cuthberts, Carlisle, in 1778; wall tablet to Francis Aglionby by M.L. Watson, 1843. Tower demolished 1983."

	cross slabs

notes:-	There has probable been a church here since the 12th or 13th century. The earliest building was probably of wood. The church was valued, for Pope Nicholas, at L10 9s 5d in 1292, and the vicarage at L5 4s 8d. Up to the Dissolution, 1534, the church supplied priests to the nunnery at Croglin.
	There was a stone church by the 18th century, and in 1872 a new church was built, the faculty to pull down the old one granted by the diocese in 1871. The church had a tower, 65 feet high, with a turret clock with a strike, and two bells. The tower, badly built, was taken down in 1983.
	: 2000: church leaflet

	BNI66.jpg Organ by Harrison and Harrison, Durham, about 1890. (taken 9.3.2007) CCQ91.jpg Organ, maker's plate:- "HARRISON &HARRISON / DURHAM" (taken 20.3.2015) CCQ87.jpg Altar frontal. (taken 20.3.2015) CCQ88.jpg Altar frontal; sheep. (taken 20.3.2015) CCQ90.jpg Memorial to Major Arthur Hugh Aglionby, died, World War I, 1918. (taken 20.3.2015) BNI67.jpg Coat of arms, Major Arthur Hugh Aglionby, died 1918. (taken 9.3.2007) CCQ89.jpg Coat of arms on the choir stalls. (taken 20.3.2015) CCQ85.jpg Sandstone effigy of John Aglionby. (taken 20.3.2015) CCQ86.jpg Sandstone effigy of Katarine Denton, wife of John Aglionby. An inscription round the base:- "[ORATE PRO ANIMA KATARINE DENTON QUIS OBIT AD 1428]" Pray for the soul of Katarine Dent who died 1428. (taken 20.3.2015) CCQ98.jpg Boot scraper. (taken 20.3.2015) CCQ76.jpg Boot scraper. (taken 20.3.2015)

	CCQ92.jpg Village map, 2000. (taken 20.3.2015) CCQ93.jpg Village map, 2000; a different symbol is used for each family. (taken 20.3.2015) CCQ94.jpg (taken 20.3.2015) CCQ95.jpg (taken 20.3.2015) CCQ96.jpg (taken 20.3.2015) CCQ97.jpg (taken 20.3.2015)

	dedication
person:-	: St Michael
person:-	: All Angels
place:-	Ainstable / Carlisle Diocese

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