Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Paul, Irton

St Paul, Irton

St Paul's Church

Irton Church

locality:-

Irton

civil parish:-

Irton with Santon (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY09160047

1Km square:-

NY0900

10Km square:-

NY00

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BMB84.jpg (taken 11.5.2006)
photograph

BMB77.jpg (taken 11.5.2006)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 78 15)
placename:- St Pauls' 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.

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.

D4SD09NE.jpg
"Church"
church
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s

source data:-

Photograph, sepia, landscape with church, Westmorland or Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?

click to enlarge
HB0304.jpg
The best match for the tower is St Paul's Church, Irtron?
item:- Armitt Library : ALPS663
Image © see bottom of page

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.

NUR1NY00.jpg
"IRTON"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

stained glass

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Church of St Paul

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST PAUL / / / IRTON WITH SANTON / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76247 / NY0916200470"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. Rebuilt on site of earlier church 1857 by Miles Thompson of Kendal; vestry on north side added in 1866, rebuilt 1872 when chancel extended by William White of London. Pebble-dashed, with dressed stone details, on chamfered plinth; chamfered eaves band on corbels; stepped buttressing. Graduated slate roofs with terra-cotta ridge tiles; stone copings and kneelers with apex crosses. 4-bay nave with west tower, 3-bay chancel, and adjoining vestry. Plank door with pointed head in gabled north porch; windows have pointed heads. 3-stage west tower has taller octagonal stair turret, with external access, at junction with nave on north side; both embattled. Interior: Aisleless nave with double hammer-beam roof trusses; pointed tower and chancel arches. Hammer-beam roof over altar; painted reredos. Gothick carving to choir pews. Minton tiles throughout. Octagonal wooden pulpit with arcaded, openwork, sides. Stone font has 4 marble shafts supporting circular bowl with evangelist symbols carved on panels at cardinal points. Scrollwork decoration to wrought-iron gates in tower arch. Good C19 glass including 4 panels by Morris &Co."

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Irton Hall Servants Memorial

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"IRTON HALL SERVANTS MEMORIAL 8 YARDS WEST OF ST PAULS CHURCH / / / IRTON WITH SANTON / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76248 / NY0913600471"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Memorial to servants at Irton Hall; late C18/early C19. Stone, square in plan c6 ft tall. Moulded plinth surmounted by large, cavetto-sided block inscribed with servants' names in panelled frames to each side; cornice carries splayed block with fluted finial."

evidence:-

old print:- Calverley 1899
item:- cross

source data:-

In the churchyard:-

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CV1115.jpg
Sketches by W G Collingwood.
item:- JandMN : 190
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old drawing:-
item:- cross

source data:-

Drawing, The Anglian Cross, St Paul's Church, Irton, Cumberland, by William Gershom Collingwood, 1899.

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PR0820.jpg
Study of west, south and east faces of a cross with intricate carved decoration of interlacing, plaiting, scrolling foliage and key pattern.
Drawn to illustrate Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carlisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, published by T Wilson, Kendal 1899; opposite p.206.
initialled &dated at bottom left:- "W.G.C. 1899"
item:- Tullie House Museum : 1902.18.14
Image © Tullie House Museum

ring of bells

hearsay:-

A cross slab was removed from under the altar when an old church was demolished, 1856. It has/had on it an ornamental cross head, the steps of Calvary at the base, a pilgrim's pouch, and a sword.

It is said to have marked the grave of Sir Adam d'Yerton, a crusader Knight of St John, died 1096.

incumbents:-

Benson, John	1676 -
Benn, Joseph	1681 -
Burrough, Edward	1730 -
Steble, John	1775 -
Watts, Clement	1780 -
Grice, John	1797 -
Fell, Samuel Irton	1842 -
Hodgson, Henry Wade	1846 -
Calthrop, Robert Gordon - Collingwood, Robert Gordon	1855 -
Pugh, Kenneth Mackenzie	1882 -
Spurrier, Walter Horatio	1898 -

BMB76.jpg (taken 11.5.2006)
photograph

BMB79.jpg Organ, by Nicholson, Worcester, 1874.
(taken 11.5.2006)
photograph

BNM32.jpg Organ, by Nicholson, Worcester, 1874.
(taken 4.4.2007)
photograph

BTE55.jpg Organ, by Nicholson, Worcester, 1874.
(taken 13.7.2010)
photograph

BMB78.jpg Coat of arms for Sir Aubrey Brocklebank, Greenlands, Holmrock, d.1929.
"GOD SEND GRACE" (taken 11.5.2006)
photograph

BNM33.jpg Coat of arms for Samuel Irton, Irton Hall, d.1866.
"SEMPER CONSTANS ET FIDELIS" (taken 4.4.2007)
photograph

BYL90.jpg Memorial to servants at Irton Hall.
(taken 4.6.2013)

notes:-

There was a church here by 1227 when the benefice was made over to the Prioress of Lekely, Seaton Priory. The older church was demolished in 1856-57, and the present church built, architect Miles Thompson, Kendal. The vestry was rebuilt in 1866, and an arch made in the north wall for an organ, which arrived later; the chancel was enlarged and the present vestry built, in 1872; the church was restored in 1887.

: : church leaflet

dedication

person:-

: St Paul

place:-

Irton / Carlisle Diocese

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