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St Peter, Mansergh
St Peter's Church
Mansergh Church
locality:-   Mansergh
civil parish:-   Mansergh (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD60248270
1Km square:-   SD6082
10Km square:-   SD68
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

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BMY78.jpg (taken 10.11.2006)  
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BXV65.jpg (taken 10.2.2013)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 43 16) 
placename:-  St Peter'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 Peter's Church (Per Curacy) / Grave Yard"
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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"Chapel"
church 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"Chap"
church symbol; church or chapel 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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.
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"MANSERGH"
United benefice with Kirkby Lonsdale, one parish. 
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page
 stained glass
 kneelers
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Peter
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST PETER / / CHAPEL LANE / MANSERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75718 / SD6024782704"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. 1880. By Paley and Austin. Dressed slate with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Nave, west tower, chancel and north transept and vestry. Quoins. Tower has large diagonal buttresses and south weathered stair turret; 2 dripcourses; cusped louvred bell openings with continuous label mould; saddleback roof has coped gables to east and west, and embattled parapets and spouts to north and south. 3-light west window with Perpendicular tracery has plaque below recording building of church, incorporating lead panel dated 1726. North side has basement entrance and ogee-headed light; similar light to south. 3-bay nave has straight-headed windows of 2 and 3 lights with cusping. South gabled porch of timber on stone base has moulded members, tracery panels and moulded segmental-arched opening. 2-bay chancel has sill course and gable cross. 2- and 1-light straight-headed windows with double cusped lights to south. 4-light traceried east window, the sill course continuing above small buttress to become label mould to vestry window of 4 lights with 3-centred heads. Transept of 2 gabled bays; straight-headed traceried windows of 2 lights; rainwater head to valley gutter; cross-axial stack to east bay. Vestry under swept catslide roof to east has entrance with 3-centred head. Interior: Waggon roofs with moulded members. Tower arch has continuous double chamfer; good stained glass to west window. Tapered octagonal font with roll mouldings. Wall memorial to Christopher (died 1845) and Catherine (died 1851) Wilson, richly ornamented Gothic form, with pinnacles and nodding ogee canopy. Chancel arch as tower arch, arches to transept from nave and chancel die into jambs. Chancel has ashlar facing below sill course and to whole of east wall. Timber pulpit on stone base has moulded panels. Timber lectern and stalls have blind and pierced tracery. Altar rails have turned balusters over middle rails. Panelled recess under south window has 2 seats; north recess has moulded sill and sunk ogee to head. Transept has valley on traceried arch braces. Good C19 stained glass to north-west window. Entrance to vestry has sunk ogee and tracery to lintel."

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BXV72.jpg  Harmonium, made by Mason and Hamlin
(taken 10.2.2013)  
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BXV73.jpg  Harmonium, made by Mason and Hamlin
(taken 10.2.2013)  
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CDO15.jpg  Date stone.
(taken 9.7.2015)  
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BXV66.jpg  Memorial, Christopher Wilson, died 1845.
(taken 10.2.2013)  
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BXV67.jpg  Coat of arms, Christopher Wilson, died 1845.
(taken 10.2.2013)  
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BXV68.jpg  Memorial, Edward Wilson, died 1870.
(taken 10.2.2013)  
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BXV69.jpg  Coat of arms, Edward Wilson, died 1870.
(taken 10.2.2013)  
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BXV64.jpg (taken 10.2.2013)  
hearsay:-  
 Built on the site of a chapel built about 1726. The short lane to the church is called Chapel Lane.
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
date:-   1880
New church in perpendicular style.
dedication
person:-    : St Peter
place:-   Mansergh / Carlisle Diocese
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