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| Furness Abbey Hotel, Barrow-in-Furness | ||
| Furness Abbey Hotel | ||
| Abbey Tavern | ||
| locality:- | Furness Abbey | |
| civil parish:- | Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | SD21797195 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2171 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD27 | |
| references:- | Martineau 1855 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 21 4) placename:- Furness Abbey Hotel placename:- Manor House |
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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 text:- Martineau 1855 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto sourcePage 24:- "... There is a good inn,- (though not cheap, as cheapness is not to be expected in the precincts of secluded ruins:) and here the tourist should bespeak his bed, if he means to study the Abbey." |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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| source data:- | Photograph, sepia, Furness Abbey Hotel, and the railway platform, Barrow-in-Furness,
Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0552.jpg item:- Armitt Library : ALPS212 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | probably database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Abbey Tavern, The |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "THE ABBEY TAVERN / / ABBEY APPROACH / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388377 / SD2179471956" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Public house. Early C19, extended 1848. Red sandstone, slate roofs. 3 and 2 storeys, 2:3 windows to 1st floor. 3-storey part on left: 3 pointed arched openings with later 3-light traceried windows; lancet window on right. 1st floor has transomed 4-light window with king mullion and hoodmould; double-transomed stair window on right with pointed-arched lights and continuous dripmould. 2nd floor has stepped 3-light mullioned window with hoodmould and relieving arch. Roll-moulded gable copings with finial, continuous parapet wall and small gable over the stair window. Side gables; external end stack on right. 2-storey part: C20 door through transomed 4-light window on left; mullioned and transomed 2- and 3-light windows on right have dripmoulds; offset buttress at right corner. 1st floor: cross-windows with pointed-arched lights; moulded eaves band; roll-moulded gable copings; external end stack on right has offsets and moulded cap. 1-storey outbuildings against right return. Represents a fragment of a substantial hotel that served the Furness Railway. The hotel had been rebuilt from the remains of the C17 house of Sir Thomas Preston but was largely demolished in 1951 and 1954. The ground floor of the 3-storey part was formerly enclosed by a verandah." "(Dickinson J C: Furness Abbey: London: 1987-: 18-19" "Trescatheric B: Barrow in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1982-: PL 82, 83)." |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- Martineau 1855 placename:- Furness Abbey Hotel |
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| source data:- | Advertisment for Furness Abbey Hotel in A Complete Guide to the Lake District of England,
by Harriet Martineau published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 4th edn 1871. click to enlargeMNU1Ad13.jpg Advertisment pages, added at the of the guide. item:- JandMN : 192.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- Linton 1852 placename:- Furness Abbey Hotel |
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| source data:- | Advertisement, ... Thomas Slaney, Furness Abbey Hotel, Barrow-on-Furness, Cumberland,
published by Whittaker and Co, London, and by R Gibson and Son and by Callander and
Dixon, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1852. click to enlargeLN1A11.jpg Advertisments p.11 in A Handbook of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, by John Linton. item:- Armitt Library : A1158.24 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- Atkinson 1847 (5th edn 1850) placename:- Furness Abbey Hotel |
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| source data:- | Advertisement for William Parker at the Furness Abbey Hotel, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire,
1850. click to enlargeAK2A17.jpg At the end of a Handbook to the English Lakes, 5th edn. item:- Armitt Library : A1144.25 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
The Furness Railway converted the manor house next the station, partly 12th century,
to a hotel, 1847. |
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| Paley and Austin series | ||
| person:- | architect : Paley, Edward G |
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| date:- | 1866 to 1869 |
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| Changes to the building, in tudor style. |
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