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College, Kirkoswald
Kirkoswald College
locality:-   Kirkoswald
civil parish:-   Kirkoswald (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY55474109
1Km square:-   NY5541
10Km square:-   NY54

photograph
BUL13.jpg  Gate to The College.
(taken 29.4.2011)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 40 6) 
placename:-  College
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.
evidence:-   map:- 
source data:-   : 1954: Monastic Britain: Ordnance Survey
evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 169  "Not long before the dissolution, the church was turned into a College of twelve Secular Priests. All the glebe-lands and tithes are the property of the old family of the Featherstonhaughs. The college was converted into a mansion-house by that family, and was called by Mr. Sandford a noble one."
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  College
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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"College / Featherstonhaugh Esqr."
house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
item:-  placename, Fetherstonhaugh
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 190:-  "..."
""... and quondam college: now the noble mansion-house of the late sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh, colonel of the king's side, taken at Wigan when the late lord Witherington was slain. Sir Timothy was taken prisoner and excuted by beheading at Chester, by the command of the unworthy col. Mitton, after the said knight had quarter given him. ..."
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Page 191:-  "..."
"The Fetherstonhaughs were a Northumberland family, whose antient seat was at a place of that name. Their house, it is said, was formerly on a hill (where are two stones called Fether stones), and was moated about for defence against the Scots. But, upon the ruin of this, the house was afterwards built in the holme or valley under the hill, which they there call haugh, and the family writ their names de Fetherston, and sometimes de Fetherstonhaugh. They first came to Kirk Oswald in the beginning of the last century, where they yet continue."
evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  College, The
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 319-320  "At Kirkoswald on l. is the College, C. Featherstonhaugh, Esq."
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Capper 1808
source data:-   Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published 1808-29.
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"[Kirkoswald] ... In the reign of Henry VIII. a college was founded here for 12 priests. ..."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  College
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE COLLEGE AND ADJOINING UNNAMED HOUSE / / / KIRKOSWALD / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73496 / NY5970443520"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  College Flat
item:-  date stone
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE COLLEGE FLAT, SOUTH OF THE COLLEGE / / / KIRKOSWALD / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73483 / NY5548141093"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  College, The
item:-  coat of arms; date stone (1696); date stone (1842)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE COLLEGE / / / KIRKOSWALD / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 73482 / NY5545641109"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ENTRANCE GATEWAY SOUTH EAST OF THE COLLEGE / / / KIRKOSWALD / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73485 / NY5548841066"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"STABLE BLOCK SOUTH OF THE COLLEGE / / / KIRKOSWALD / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73484 / NY5546541082"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
item:-  sundial
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"TERRACE WALL AND STEPS WEST OF THE COLLEGE / / / KIRKOSWALD / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73486 / NY5544041103"
evidence:-   site plan:- 
placename:-  College, The
source data:-   Plan, uncoloured lithograph, The College, Kirkoswald, Cumberland, published by Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Kendal, Westmorland, 1914.
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With an article about the Fetherstonhaugh Family and The College, by Mrs Fetherstonhaugh and F Haswell. 
printed at upper centre:-  "THE COLLEGE, KIRKOSWALD"
item:-  private collection : 232
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hearsay:-  
 The house was established as a college for priests in 1523. It is built onto a pele tower. After The Dissolution the College was the home of the Fetherstonhaugh Family.
notes:-  
 15th century tower included in the later building

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustration
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