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| St John, Cowgill | |||||||||||||||
| St John's Church | |||||||||||||||
| Cowgill Chapel | |||||||||||||||
| Kirkthwaite Chapel | |||||||||||||||
| locality:- | Cowgill | ||||||||||||||
| civil parish:- | Dent (formerly Yorkshire) | ||||||||||||||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||||||||||||||
| locality type:- | church | ||||||||||||||
| coordinates:- | SD75608695 | ||||||||||||||
| 1Km square:- | SD7586 | ||||||||||||||
| 10Km square:- | SD78 | ||||||||||||||
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 BMG68.jpg (taken 16.6.2006)  CCX63.jpg (taken 23.4.2015) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 64 15) placename:- St John's Church |
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| 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. |
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 CCX62.jpg (taken 23.4.2015) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St John the Evangelist |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST / / / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484266 / SD7560286947" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Formerly known as: Kirkthwaite Chapel DENTDALE." "Formerly known as: Cowgill Chapel DENTDALE." "Church. 1837-8. Coursed sandstone rubble, slate roof. Early English style. Six-bay nave with west bellcote and short 1-bay chancel with attached vestry in north angle." "EXTERIOR: simple buttresses to three-quarter height, one tall lancet in each bay except the first, which is wider and has a gabled wooden porch protecting a 2-centred arched doorway, and a square slated bellcote on the ridge with wooden louvres and a steep pyramidal roof with a weathervane. The west gable has a short central buttress flanked by lancets and an oculus above and between these. The chancel has a stepped triple-lancet east window." "INTERIOR: single vessel with very small sanctuary; plastered walls; scissor roof trusses with kingposts; pitch-pine benches; organ in south-east corner. The south wall has 3 arched marble wall monuments commemorating members of the Elam family: (1) Robert Elam C.E., d.1855 at Thorns Hall (Sedbergh CP, qv); (2) John Elam, Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, d.1862 at Thorns Hall; (3) Catherine Elam, d.1874 and Lucy Elam, d.1883, both at Thorns Hall. (See also Monument to Lucy Elam, Dentdale, qv). The north wall has a sculpted wall monument with a seated angel inscribed "G.Nelson, Sculp." commemorating: Anne, widow of John Blackmore, d.1888 at Broadfield House (qv), her father Paul Nixon of Stone House (qv), d.1850, Anne his wife, d.1849, and also George Nelson, sculptor, died London 1888; and a smaller monument commemorating Dora Blackmore, d.1890 at Broadfield House." "HISTORICAL NOTE: the subject of Professor Adam Sedgwick's "A Memorial to Cowgill Chapel" (1868): a plea for the ancient name of Cowgill to be retained. Forms group with associated gate piers (qv)." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "GATE PIERS AND GATES TO CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST / / / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484267 / SD7562086935" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Pair of gate piers and gates to churchyard. Probably 1838. Monolithic sandstone gate piers, wrought-iron gates. Gothic style. Octagonal piers with a cusped panel in each side and pointed cap; pair of gates with swept top rails, spear-headed bars and dog-bars. Forms group with Church of St John the Evangelist (qv)." |
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 CCX65.jpg Mothers Union banner. (taken 23.4.2015)  CCX66.jpg Organ, by T Hopkins and Son, York. (taken 23.4.2015)  CCX67.jpg Organ, makers plate, "T. HOPKINS &SON / YORK" (taken 23.4.2015)  CCX68.jpg Memorial, probably made of local marble. (taken 23.4.2015)  CCX69.jpg Memorial, sculptor George Nelson. (taken 23.4.2015)  CCX76.jpg Font, perhaps local marble? (taken 23.4.2015) |
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| hearsay:- |
This is now a CofE church, built 1838 on the site of a nonconformist chapel., Cowgill
or Kirkthwaite Chapel. |
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| The foundation stone of Cowgill Chapel was laid by Adam Sedgwick, 1837, close by where
his sister had begun a Sunday School, 20 years before:- |
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| "... We began by making the rocks echo back the old hundredth Psalms; my brother read
one or two short prayers from our liturgy; Mr. Wilson made a short address; I handled
the trowel, and laid the stone, and then addressed my countrymen ..." |
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| The name of Kirkthwaite Chapel was a misnaming by an ecclesiastical official who thought
Cowgill too uncouth. It took a lot of pressure, finally the sending of a pamphlet
to Victoria, to get the proper name reinstituted by Act of Parliament in 1869. |
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| Speakman, Colin: 1982: Adam Sedgwick: Broadoak Press & Geological Society of London
&Trinity College, Cambridge:: ISBN 0 906716 01 2 |
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