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| Two Lions Inn, Penrith | ||
| Two Lions Inn | ||
| Newhall | ||
| Dockray Hall | ||
| Gerard Lowther House | ||
| Street:- | Princes Street | |
| locality:- | Penrith | |
| civil parish:- | Penrith (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | NY51572997 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5129 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY52 | |
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 CAT25.jpg Great Dockray side. (taken 23.5.2014)  CAT26.jpg One remaining lion. (taken 23.5.2014) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 58 4) placename:- Two Lions Inn |
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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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| evidence:- | old print:- Taylor 1892 placename:- Two Lions Inn |
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| source data:- | Print, imagined plan of the Two Lions Inn, Penrith, Cumberland, published for the
Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson,
Kendal, Westmorland, and by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892. click to enlargeTY5055.jpg Tipped in opposite p.255 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. item:- Armitt Library : A785.55 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Taylor 1892 placename:- Two Lions Inn item:- genealogy; family tree |
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| source data:- | Print, family tree pertinent to the heraldic plaster ceiling in the Two Lions Inn,
Penrith, Cumberland, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and
Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, and by Charles Thurnam
and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892. click to enlargeTY5056.jpg Tipped in opposite p.255 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. item:- Armitt Library : A785.56 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Taylor 1892 placename:- Gerard Lowther House placename:- Two Lions Inn item:- coat of arms; ceiling; plaster ceiling |
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| source data:- | Print, Plaster Ceiling, Gerard Lowther House - Two Lions Inn, Penrith, Cumberland,
published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society,
by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, and by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland,
1892. click to enlargeTY5057.jpg Tipped in between pp.256-257 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. item:- Armitt Library : A785.57 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- Ullswater Steamers 1900s (edn 1903) placename:- Two Lions Hotel |
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| source data:- | Advertisements, ... for W Widdows, Two Lions Hotel, Penrith, Cumberland ... published
in a guide book by the Ullswater Steam Navigation Co, 1903. click to enlargeUN1A08.jpg item:- JandMN : 1023.33 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Harper 1907 placename:- Two Lions inn |
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| source data:- | Guidebook, The Manchester and Glasgow Road, by Charles G Harper,
published by Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1907. HP01p132.txt Page 132:- "..." "Equally interesting is the old "Two Lions" inn near by. It looks out up the street in a shy manner, being hidden upon a narrow entry, in a fashion that to a southron seems a strangely retiring pose for an ancient mansion of the landed classes; a complexion from which, in fact, the house has, since ancient times, declined. Time was - in the reign of the more or less good Queen Bess, to be precise - when what is now the "Two Lions" was the "town house" of Gerard Lowther, a notable member of the always rich and powerful Lowther family; and little though the exterior may attract, there is a very wealth of interest within. The fireplace in the hall has three heraldic shields, and the banqueting-room, now the smoking-room, had an enriched plaster ceiling, dated 1585, and displaying ten shields of the arms of Lowthers and allied families. In an upstairs room is another ceiling heraldically adorned with the arms of Lowther and Dudley, dated 1586, and with the initials of Gerard Lowther himself and Lucy, his wife. More to the purpose of the smaller tradesmen of Penrith, who are the chief frequenters of the "Two Lions," is the fine bowling-green - bowling rhyming with "howling," in the speech of the older folk - at the back of the house." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Two Lions item:- date stone |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "TWO LIONS PUBLIC HOUSE AND INTEGRAL STABLES / / GREAT DOCKRAY / PENRITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 72855 / NY5157029970" |
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 CAT27.jpg Door to through passage. (taken 23.5.2014)  CAT28.jpg Rear. (taken 23.5.2014) |
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| hearsay:- |
The bar has a plaster ceiling, 1585, with coats of arms of the Dudley, Lowther, Radcliffe,
Threlkeld Familes, etc. |
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| notes:- |
early hall |
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| Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS::
ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan |
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