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St Mungo, Bromfield
St Mungo's Church
Bromfield Church
locality:-   Bromfield
civil parish:-   Bromfield (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY17584703
1Km square:-   NY1747
10Km square:-   NY14
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BPI43.jpg (taken 14.6.2008)  
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CGY52.jpg (taken 5.1.2017)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 28 10) 
placename:-  St Mungo'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. Mungo'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.
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NUR1NY14.jpg
"BROMFIELD"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page


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CGY42.jpg (taken 15.12.2017)  

 stained glass

 stained glass - coats of arms

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Mungo
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MUNGO / / / BROMFIELD / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / I / 410437 / NY1758147036"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. C12-C14, with restorations of 1861-2, 1893-4 and 1926. Coursed red sandstone rubble, under sandstone slate roof with coped gables and cross finials. 2-bay nave with north aisle, south porch, north vestry, gabled twin west bellcote and medieval east bellcote for angelus bell. 2-bay chancel with side chapels and lean-to north hearse house, unusually attached to the church. Nave has one south trefoil-headed window, all others are C19 and 2-light. Old studded plank door under reused zigzag Norman arch within C19 porch. Chancel has priest's door and C15 2-light window in double-chamfered surround. C19 3-light east window. South chapel has unusual bar-tracery C13 2-light window, but the chapel is thought to have been built in 1395. North chapel has C19 window. Interior of porch has 11 fragments of medieval cross and graveslabs. Interior of nave has 3-bay arcade on round columns with vertical strips. 4 medieval graveslabs attached to west wall. C12 font on hexagonal stem. C19 pews are lettered FREE. Transitional chancel arch on responds with corbels. Piscina in south wall. C19 carved communion rail and altar screen. Aumbreys flank altar. Various C18 and C19 wall plaques; one in recess to Reverend Richard Garth of 1673 with long inscription; and another recess filled with marble sculpture of twin sons of George Dixon, 1838. South St George's Chapel was a chantry chapel, suppressed in 1546, left roofless from 1753 and walled off from chancel, but restored as 1914-18 war memorial. C18 Royal arms. Various C18 and Cl9 wall plaques. North Lady Chapel, now Crookdake Chapel has recessed graveslab to Adam de Crookdake, 1304 under later inscription. C19 wall plaques to members of Ballantine-Dykes family. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian &Archaeological Society, new series, xxxvi, pp.204-5 and church guide."

 memorials etc.

evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  cross
source data:-   Churchyard, south side:-
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CV1062.jpg
In the porch:- 
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CV1063.jpg
Lithographs by W S Calverley. 
In the wall of the tool shed at the vicarage:- 
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CV1064.jpg
Sketch by W G Collingwood. 
item:-  JandMN : 190
Image © see bottom of page

 cross slabs

incumbents:-  
Aile, Ralfe de  1302 -  
Southwerk, William de 
Otrington, William de  1330 -  
Whitelaw, Hugh de 
Kirkoswald, Roger de  1344 -  
Culwen, John de  1377 -  
King, John 
Clifton, John  1535 -  
Corry, John  1562 -  
Laythes  1564 -  
Dean, Nicholas  1589 -  
Beck, Peter  1602 -  
Grainger, William  1648 -  
Garth, Richard  1663 -  
Sill, William  1673 -  
Child, John  1681 -  
Procter, John  1692 -  
Rothery, Joseph  1714 -  
Wikinson, Jeremiah  1717 -  
Yates, Obadiah  1752 -  
Raincock, William  1765 -  
Denton, Isaac  1784 -  
Fletcher, Walter  1799 -  
Wybergh, Christopher Hilton  1826 -  
Taylor, Richard  1876 -  

 sundial


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CGY80.jpg  Organ, by Hill and Son, London.
(taken 5.1.2017)  
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CGY81.jpg  Organ, by Hill and Son, London.
(taken 5.1.2017)  
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CGY83.jpg  organ pipes
(taken 5.1.2017)  
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CGY90.jpg  Carving.
(taken 5.1.2017)  
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CGY91.jpg  Carving.
(taken 5.1.2017)  
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CGY87.jpg  Pews.
(taken 5.1.2017)  
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CGY88.jpg  Pews:-
"FREE" (taken 5.1.2017)  
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CGZ17.jpg  Font.
(taken 5.1.2017)  
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CGZ18.jpg  Chancel arch.
(taken 5.1.2017)  
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CGZ19.jpg  Arches.
(taken 5.1.2017)  
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CGY43.jpg  Arch.
(taken 15.12.2017)  


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CGY44.jpg  Gravestones
(taken 15.12.2017)  
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CGZ20.jpg  Hearse house.
(taken 15.12.2017)  
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CGY41.jpg  Gate.
(taken 15.12.2017)  
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BPI46.jpg  Lamp bracket:-
"IMPROVED / PLATFORM LAMP" but no lamp.
(taken 14.6.2008)  


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CGY79.jpg  Mowbray's Oxford Broadsheets no.11
"The Holy Catholic Church ..." (taken 5.1.2017)  
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CGY78.jpg  Mowbray's Oxford Broadsheets no.14
"Ornament and Ceremonies of the Church and her Ministers." (taken 5.1.2017)  

notes:-  
Founded in the 12th century? There is an ancient cross believed to date from AD400.

dedication
person:-    : St Mungo
place:-   Bromfield / Carlisle Diocese

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