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St Patrick, Preston Patrick
St Patrick's Church
Preston Patrick Church
St Gregory's Church
locality:-   Crooklands
civil parish:-   Preston Patrick (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD53718352
1Km square:-   SD5383
10Km square:-   SD58
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

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BJS27.jpg (taken 12.8.2005)  
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CFU62.jpg (taken 30.1.2017)  
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Preston Chapel
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus.  "Preston chap:"
item:-  private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Preston Chappell
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Preston Chappell"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Preston Chappell
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Preston chap."
Building and tower with cross. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 38) 
placename:-  Preston Chappell
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, continuation of the Road from London to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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In mile 249, Westmorland. 
Turning right:-  "to Preston chappell"
item:-  JandMN : 21
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Preston Chappel
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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"Preston Chappel"
Circle. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen 1720 (plate 93) 
placename:-  Preston Chapel
source data:-   Strip maps, uncoloured engravings, road maps, The Road from London to Carlisle, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, with sections in Lancashire and Westmorland, published by Emanuel Bowen, St Katherines, London, 1720.
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At mile 249 next scroll, drawn on a hill. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.100
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evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Preston Chapel
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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"Preston C."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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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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church 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Baker 1802
source data:-   Perspective road maps with sections in Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland, by J Baker, London 1802.
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item:-  private collection : 3
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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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"PRESTON PATRICK"
item:-  JandMN : 27
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 stained glass
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Patrick
placename:-  St Gregory's Church
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST PATRICK / / A65 / PRESTON PATRICK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76611 / SD5370483520"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Formerly known as Church of St Gregory. Parish Church. 1852 by Sharpe and Paley on site of earlier church; chancel rebuilt 1892. Incorporates C15 window in tower and niches in chancel from original church. Squared limestone blocks with roughly-cut limestone dressings to nave, sandstone dressings to chancel; graduated slate roof with stone ridge and copings. Perpendicular style. West Tower, nave with North aisle, chancel and vestry. Chamfered plinth and cornice; square 4-stage tower with diagonal buttresses, string to each stage, bell openings to all sides of 4th stage, battlemented parapets and octagonal stair turret, rising to higher level at south-west corner, with slit windows and pointed-arched head to door. Gabled South porch with slate roof and stone copings; depressed arch to doorway with hoodmould and heavy roughly-dressed stone labels. Interior: Nave has 4-bay A-frame roof with curved braces, chancel has one bay barrel-vaulted roof. 3 3-light windows to North aisle, 3 2-light windows to South of nave and one 2-light window in chancel, 4-light West window and 4-light East window with stained glass representing Saints; variety of other late C19 and early C20 glass including central window in South side of nave by Heaton Butler and Bayne of London. Pulpit commemorates death of William Henry Wakefield of Sedgwick House in 1889. Prominent landscape feature dominating surrounding area."

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BQY69.jpg  From the south.
(taken 1.7.2009)  
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CFU71.jpg  Organ, by Wilkinson, Kendal.
(taken 30.1.2017)  

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CDP18.jpg  Organ, by Wilkinson, Kendal.
(taken 2015)  courtesy of Elizabeth Bingham

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CFU72.jpg  Organ pipes.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU79.jpg  Organ keyboard.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU73.jpg  Banner, sheep in the hills.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU74.jpg  Mothers Union banner.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU75.jpg  14th century stone carving, a green man.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU76.jpg  14th century stone carving.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU77.jpg  Memorial, Sir Herbert Atkinson Barker, d.1950.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
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CFU78.jpg  Coat of arms, Sir Herbert Atkinson Barker.
(taken 30.1.2017)  
hearsay:-  
 Rebuilt 1852; chancel rebuilt 1892. Dedicated to St Gregory before 1892.
There was an earlier chapel on the site in which George Fox preached, 1652, to the Seekers who later became the core of the Quakers.
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Sharpe, Edmund
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
date:-   1852
 to 1853
St Gregory's Church, rebuilt in perpendicular style.
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Henry A
date:-   1892
New chancel.
dedication
person:-    : St Patrick
place:-   Preston Patrick / Carlisle Diocese
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