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chapel, Hawkshead Hill
Hawkshead Hill Baptist Chapel
locality:-   Hawkshead Hill
civil parish:-   Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   baptist chapel
locality type:-   chapel
coordinates:-   SD33809873
1Km square:-   SD3398
10Km square:-   SD39
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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CAR44.jpg (taken 16.5.2014)  
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CAR45.jpg  Plaque:-
"BAPTIST CHAPEL / BUILT A.D 1678 / RESTORED A.D / 1878" (taken 16.5.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 2 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.
"Baptist Chapel (General) / Burial Ground / Springs"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BAPTIST CHAPEL AND ADJOINING HOUSE / / B 5285 / HAWKSHEAD / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76827 / SD3380098735"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Chapel and House. Chapel dates from 1678, but restored and probably altered in 1878. Roughcast stone with slate roof. Chapel of 3 bays, the 3rd bay with large porch under cat slide roof. Tall pointed windows with Y-tracery fixed glazing. Porch has casement and entrance to right. Rear has small wing. Interior has balcony and staircase with turned balusters, square newels and moulded rails. House to left of 2 storeys and 2 bays. Ground floor has segmental-headed openings, window with casement to 1st bay, window in slate slab porch to centre, formerly entrance, and entrance with glazed door to 2nd bay. Windows to 1st floor are sashed with single glazing bars and horns. Gable-end stack and cross-axial stack."


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CAR41.jpg  Old baptistry,
(taken 16.5.2014)  
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CAR42.jpg  Cemetery
(taken 16.5.2014)  
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CAR43.jpg  Seat.
(taken 16.5.2014)  
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CAR40.jpg  The integral Chapel Cottage.
(taken 16.5.2014)  

hearsay:-  
William Wordsworth is said to have described the chapel in a manuscript 'Scenery of the Lakes':-
"In the first cluster of houses we come to, named Hawkshead Hill, stands a meeting-house by the road side belonging to a congregation of Anabaptists called by the country people who are not of their own persuasion Whigs. the building is mean ..."
The cottage was once the home of William Dennyson, and registered as a meeting place, Under the Act of Toleration 1689. From 1721 it was just for the use of the Baptists. The building was renovated in 1876. It has not always continued as a chapel, and last reopened as a chapel in 1977.

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