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All Saints, Killington
All Saints Church
Killington Church
locality:-   Killington
civil parish:-   Killington (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD61328899
1Km square:-   SD6188
10Km square:-   SD68


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BMG51.jpg (taken 16.6.2006)  
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BMG52.jpg (taken 16.6.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 39 16) 
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.
"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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church 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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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"KILLINGTON AND MIDDLETON"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Parish Church of All Saints, Killington, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290? published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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HMW084.jpg
On p.131 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
RCHME no. Wmd, Killington 1 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.84
Image © see bottom of page

 stained glass

 kneelers

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of All Saints
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS / / / KILLINGTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 75690 / SD6132288992"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. C14 with alterations of C17, vestry of 1894. Roughcast stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Single-vessel nave and chancel, west tower and south vestry. North facade of 5 bays. 1st bay has C14 straight-headed window of 2 cusped lights; 2nd bay has C17 2-light straight-headed window; 3rd bay has 3-light C14 window as to 1st bay; 4th and 5th bays have single lights of C16 or C17, that to 4th bay double-chamfered. South facade has C17 windows, the 1st a hollow-chamfered light the 2nd and 3rd of 2 lights, the 2nd double-chamfered. Eastern end has vestry with quoins and half-hipped roof; Tudor-headed west entrance and 2-light east window. East end has moulded verges and ball-finial; 3-light window in splayed reveals. Tower has segmental pointed entrances, the inner one C14. Segmental pointed louvred bell openings and pyramidal slate roof. Interior has mid C19 roof collar and kingpost trusses on wall brackets. West end has small gallery between 2 walls, medieval holy water stoup. Gallery has trefoil-headed panelling. Small font with alabaster shafts. Painted boards for Creed, Commandments and Lord's Prayer. Small medieval stained glass panel to 3-light window, armorial bearing: Pickering. Black marble wall tablet to north side, Jane Cook (died 1771), architrave and pediment. East window has stained glass of 1907. Former font, early to mid C17, timber, octagonal moulded bowl on 16-sided shaft with octagonal pyramidal timber cover. Built as the chapel to Killington Hall (q.v.) by Pickering family and became parochial in 1585."


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BTY78.jpg  The 'University Organ'
(taken 28.1.2011)  
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BTY75.jpg  Lamp.
(taken 28.1.2011)  
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BTY76.jpg  Lamp.
(taken 28.1.2011)  
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CCQ21.jpg  Lamp.
(taken 13.3.2015)  
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BTY82.jpg  Embroidered panel by the east window, design by Rosemary Darby,1988
(taken 28.1.2011)  
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BTY83.jpg  Embroidered panel by the east window, design by Rosemary Darby,1988
(taken 28.1.2011)  
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BTY74.jpg  Parish chest.
(taken 28.1.2011)  
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CCQ20.jpg  Memorial to Captain Brisco Morland, died at sea 1804.
(taken 28.1.2011)  
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BXT77.jpg  Harmonium
(taken 21.12.2012)  
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BTY80.jpg  Harmonium, maker:-
"J. Estey &Co." of Brattleboro, Vermont.
(taken 28.1.2011)  
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BTY81.jpg  Harmonium, retailer:-
"WILKINSON &SONS / (EST' 1829) / PIANOS, ORGANS, HARMONIUMS / KENDAL" (taken 28.1.2011)  


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BXT75.jpg (taken 21.12.2012)  
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BXT76.jpg (taken 21.12.2012)  

hearsay:-  
This was once the chapel for the Pickering Family at Killington Hall. It was made parochial in 1585; the tower and bells came about 1711; restored 1824, 1868, 1895.

dedication
person:-    : All Saints
place:-   Killington

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