Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Paul, Rusland

St Paul, Rusland

St Paul's Church

Rusland Church

locality:-

Rusland

civil parish:-

Colton (formerly Lancashire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

SD33848965

1Km square:-

SD3389

10Km square:-

SD38

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BLU57.jpg (taken 7.4.2006)
photograph

BLU58.jpg (taken 7.4.2006)

Built 1745; rebuilt 1863.

evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H

source data:-

Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.

GAR2SD38.jpg
cross, a church
item:- JandMN : 82.1
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.

NUR1SD38.jpg
"RUSLAND"
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 / / / COLTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 421769 / SD3384289653"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. 1745, rebuilt except for tower, 1868. Slate rubble with ashlar dressings. Nave, chancel with north vestry, and west tower. Rectangular-plan tower has diagonal buttresses; west entrance has pointed arch with gable, lancet over has dripmould. Bell stage has straight-headed louvred openings of 3 pointed lights. Embattled parapet. 5-bay nave has weathered buttresses, straight-headed windows of 2 cusped ogee-headed lights. 2-bay chancel has 3-light east window with Geometrical tracery; south side has straight-headed windows of 2 cusped lights with single-chamfered nullions; eastern bay has segmental arched recess over tomb of 1844. North side has gabled vestry with Y-tracery north window. Interior: Roof has simple hammer-beam trusses with braced collars. Double-chamfered chancel arch, the inner part corbelled. Octagonal pulpit with tracery panels. Reredos with ornamental brattishing. East window has painted text round arch; flanking painted commandments, Lord's Prayer and Creed. Good late C19 stained glass, the east window possibly by Hardman. Porch in tower has timber vault."

incumbents:-

Shepherd, Nathaniel	1745 -
Forrest, Thomas	1746 -
Lee, Francis	1747 -
Fallowfield, John	1748 -
Shaw, John	1749 -
Hird, John	1750 -
Todhunter, William	1751 -
Willan, Edward	1753 -
Jackson, Edward	1756 -
Chistopherson, Thomas	1761 -
Fell, Richard	1765 -
Hewson, Thomas	1767 -
Wilson, Jonathan	1771 -
Walker, William Tyson	1775 -
Dixon, George	1778 -
Barrow, Anthony	1780 -
Carter, Matthew Inman	1802 -
Swainson, John	1807 -
Russell, John	1809 -
Bell, Robert	1816 -
Mandale, Blain	1818 -
Taylor, Robert	1819 -
Jabet, William Coates	1822 -
Barrow, James	1826 -
Clark, James	1846 -
Baines, Haygarth Taylor	1848 -
Sedger, Thomas	1851 -
Reece, James	1852 -
Bennett, Edward	1854 -
Perring, Alfred Reginald	1856 -
Barrett, Tufnell Samuel	1858 -
Ayre, Leigh Richmond	1861 -
Nichol, John George Scrymsour	1874 -
Windle, Henry Edward	1875 -
Gregson, Jesse	1880 -
Lord, Charles Caleb	1897 -
Collinson, James Makin	1906 -

CCJ17.jpg Notice.
(taken 5.2.2015)
photograph

BLU59.jpg Marking the ashes of:-
"ARTHUR RANSOME" b.1884 d.1967.
(taken 7.4.2006)
photograph

BNW06.jpg Kneeler:-
"Swallows and Amazons For Ever / ARTHUR RANSOME" (taken 27.6.2007)
photograph

CCJ16.jpg (taken 5.2.2015)

notes:-

The church was built in 1745. It was restored in 1868.

: : church leaflet

dedication

person:-

: St Paul

place:-

Rusland / Carlisle Diocese

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