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Newlands Church, Above Derwent
Newlands Church
locality:-   Newlands
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY22991937
1Km square:-   NY2219
10Km square:-   NY21

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BMR75.jpg (taken 22.9.2006)  
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BRP40.jpg (taken 25.9.2009)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 13) 
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)"
evidence:-   presumably old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Newland Chapel
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.
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"Newland chap."
circle 
item:-  JandMN : 169
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Newland Chapel
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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SP11NY21.jpg
"Newland chap."
circle, tower 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Newland Chappell
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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JAN3NY21.jpg
"Newland Chap"
Building and tower with cross. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Newland Chapel
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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MD12NY21.jpg
"Newland Chap"
Circle. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Newland Chapel
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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MD12NY21.jpg
"Newland Chap"
Circle. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Newland Chapel
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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BO18NY11.jpg
"Newland Chap."
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Chap"
church 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Newlands
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.
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GAR2NY21.jpg
"Newlands"
cross, a church 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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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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NUR1NY21.jpg
"NEWLANDS"
item:-  JandMN : 27
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BRP42.jpg  Bells.
(taken 25.9.2009)  
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BZF78.jpg  Bells.
(taken 4.9.2013)  
 stained glass
 some kneelers
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Newlands Church
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"NEWLANDS CHURCH AND FORMER SCHOOL / / / ABOVE DERWENT / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72086 / NY2299019366"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church and former school, now meeting room. Church rebuilt in 1843 on earlier site; school dated 1877. Painted roughcast walls under graduated greenslate roof. 3-bay nave/chancel with south stone porch and west twin bellcote. Single-storey 2-bay former school adjoins west end. Nave has gabled porch and tall round-headed windows. School has casement windows in plain reveals. Rear extension has casement windows with glazing bars and rounded bars in heads. School has wall plaque inscribed NEWLANDS SCHOOL BUILT BY THE PARISHIONERS 1877, CLOSED 1967 THIS STONE WAS PLACED HERE IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF DOROTHEA POTTS HEADMISTRESS 1943-1963."
"INTERIOR of church has gallery over vestibule and vestry, giving access to both school and church. Royal Arms of George II dated 1737. C17 pulpit and lecturn. Wainscoating is of reused C17 panelling. Stained glass window as First World War memorial. Late C19 furnishings and fittings."

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BRP41.jpg  Pulpit.
(taken 25.9.2009)  
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BMR77.jpg  Coat of Arms, George ?
(taken 22.9.2006)  
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CBA84.jpg  Harmonium, old and new.
(taken 9.7.2014)  
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BOK68.jpg (taken 19.1.2008)  
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BNE18.jpg (taken 14.2.2007)  
notes:-  
 Christopher Saxton's map, 1576, shows a chapel here. The first reader record is Anthony Bragg, 1610. The chapel was restored from a delapidated state in 1843.

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