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| chapel, Tottlebank | ||
| Tottlebank Church | ||
| locality:- | Tottlebank | |
| locality:- | Spark Bridge | |
| civil parish:- | Colton (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | chapel | |
| coordinates:- | SD31448450 (?) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3184 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD38 | |
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 CCC51.jpg (taken 21.11.2014)  CCC52.jpg Graveyard. (taken 21.11.2014) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Tottlebank Baptist Chapel |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "TOTTLEBANK BAPTIST CHAPEL / / / COLTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 421448 / SD3144484498" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Chapel. c.1750 with C19 alterations and additions. Roughcast stone with slate roof. One storey, 7 bays. 1st 2 bays are schoolroom of 1864, end bay is vestry. Segmental-headed windows have small-paned glazing with coloured glass margin lights. Segmental-headed entrances between 2nd and 3rd bays and 6th and 7th bays have paired 2-panel doors. Gable-end stack to right hand end; roof hipped to left hand end. Rear has 2-bay gabled transept to chapel and gabled wing with stack to schoolroom. Interior has C19 pulpit and altar rail with turned balusters to centre of wall opposite transept; C19 pews, those to transept on slope. Congregation formed in 1669 making it the oldest Baptist church in the historic county of Lancashire." |
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| hearsay:- |
Founded by Colonel Roger Sawrey of Broughton Tower, 1664; rebuilt in the 18th century.
Its isolated position is because the Five Miles Act 1665 prohibited non-conformist
worship within 5 miles of a corporate town. This is just 5 miles and a bit from Ulverston. |
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