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St Michael, Lamplugh
St Michael's Church
Lamplugh Church
locality:-   Lamplugh
civil parish:-   Lamplugh (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY08852079
1Km square:-   NY0820
10Km square:-   NY02
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BJY10.jpg (taken 14.10.2005)  
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BJY11.jpg (taken 14.10.2005)  

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.
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D4NY02SE.jpg
"Church"
church 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

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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NUR1NY02.jpg
"LAMPLUGH"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page


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BSI44.jpg  The bells.
(taken 19.3.2010)  

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Michael
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL / / / LAMPLUGH / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76257 / NY0885720796"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church. 1870. Designed by William Butterfield. Coursed, squared rubble on chamfered plinth; stepped buttressing. Graduated slate roofs with stone copings and kneelers; bellcote at west end, apex crosses to east. Aisle less nave and chancel with vestry on south side. 4-bay nave has plank inner door, with pointed head, to gabled south porch. Perpendicular fenestration; vestry door and cusped, single-light window are original Perpendicular features re-used, as are the 3 gargoyles over the east window and the blocked doorway (infilled with late C18 Dickinson memorial) on the north side of the chancel. Interior: Scissor-beam trusses to nave. Wide, pointed chancel and vestry arches with traceried, 4-centred opening above chancel arch. C19 octagonal wooden pulpit in north-east corner of nave and C19 octagonal stone font at west end. Mid C17 tomb slab with extensive, but weathered, inscription set against west wall in vestry; early C18 pedimented marble memorials in west nave wall. Glass by Kempe and Tower."

evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  cross
source data:-   ... an ancient cross which, until lately, remained in the parish, has shared the same fate as the old hall, and been wantonly destroyed ...

 cross slabs

notes:-  
Described in:-

Butler, Lawrence (ed): 2011: Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne for Cumbria, 1833-1872: CWAAS:: ISBN 978 1 873124 52 9
Extracted from the original notes made by Sir Stephen, now in Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Flintshire, contact through Flintshire Record Office


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BWK74.jpg  Banner.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK78.jpg  Organ, by Rushworth and Dreaper, Liverpool.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK79.jpg  Organ, by Rushworth and Dreaper, Liverpool.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK80.jpg  Organ, by Rushworth and Dreaper, Liverpool.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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CCU13.jpg  Trophy, Cumberland Music Festival, Challenge Shield, presented by Canon H D Rawnsley.
(taken 10.4.2015)  
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CCU14.jpg  Trophy, Cumberland Music Festival, Challenge Shield junior.
(taken 10.4.2015)  
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BOJ60.jpg  Carving by a window.
(taken 7.12.2007)  
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CCU04.jpg  Boot scraper.
(taken 10.4.2015)  
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BLY37.jpg  18th century gravestone.
(taken 24.4.2006)  
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BLY38.jpg  18th century gravestone.
(taken 24.4.2006)  
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BLY39.jpg  18th century gravestone.
(taken 24.4.2006)  
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CCU03.jpg  19th century gravestone.
(taken 10.4.2015)  

hearsay:-  
This is the site a very old chapel. The chapel was improved in 1768, thatch being replaced by slates. The present church was built 1870, architect William Butterfield, on the site of an older chapel, paid for by James Lamplugh Raper, lord of the manor.

hearsay:-  
It is said that the register of burials 1658-63 includes:-
"Frightened to death by fairies 3"
"Bewitched 4"
"Old women drowned upon trial by witchcraft 3"
"Led into a horse pond by a will o' the wisp 1"

dedication
person:-    : St Michael
place:-   Lamplugh / Carlisle Diocese

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