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| chapel, Wigton (2) | ||
| St Leonard's Chapel | ||
| locality:- | Wigton | |
| civil parish:- | Wigton (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | chapel | |
| locality type:- | hospital | |
| locality type:- | religious house | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2548 (?) | |
| 10Km square:- | NY24 | |
| references:- | Camden 1789 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- St Leonard's Chapel item:- seal, Wigton |
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| 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. goto sourcePage 186:- "..." "... Here was antiently an hospital, or free chapel dedicated to St. Leonard, to which Mr. Pegge is of opinion belongs a seal found in Pickering castle, c. York, and given me 1785 by Mr. Simpson surveyor there. It is of wood, which is an unusual material, not unlike a butter pat, and has the representation of the deity with the crucifix, circumscribed SEGILLVM WIGHTON. ..." |
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