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| Upper Denton Church | ||
| locality:- | Upper Denton | |
| civil parish:- | Upper Denton (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church (disused?) | |
| coordinates:- | NY61566551 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6165 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY66 | |
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 CCZ15.jpg (taken 8.5.2015)  CCZ16.jpg (taken 8.5.2015) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Nurse 1918 placename:- Over Denton Church |
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| 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. NUR1NY66.jpg "GILSLAND WIT[H] OVER DENTON" item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Upper Denton Church |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "UPPER DENTON CHURCH / / / UPPER DENTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 78081 / NY6156065514" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Redundant Church. Probably early C12, with alterations dated 1881 on lead - rainwater heads. Calciferous sandstone squared coursed rubble from the nearby Roman Wall, large flush quoins; stone slate roof with coped gables and kneelers. 2-bay nave and single-bay chancel. Nave has west bellcote, rebuilt with west wall in C18. Entrance in south wall, has plank door and shouldered lintel; corresponding filled north door. One original lancet window in north wall, with 1 &3-light windows with trefoil heads of 1881. Chancel east window of 1881 has trefoil head and earlier window in south wall. Interior fittings removed when declared redundant in the late 1970s. Chancel arch is Roman, reputedly to have come from the nearby Roman Fort, Birdoswald." |
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 CCZ18.jpg Door. (taken 4.4.2008)  CCZ17.jpg Rainwater head:- "1881" (taken 4.4.2008)  BOZ06.jpg Coat of arms, Armstrong, on a gravestone. (taken 4.4.2008) |
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| hearsay:- |
In the churchyard is the gravestone of:- |
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| "Here lieth the body, Margaret Teasdale of Mumps Hall, who died May the 5th 1777. aged 98 years. What I was once some may relate, What I am now is each one fate; What I shall be none can explain, Till he that called me calls again." |
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