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| Cloisters, Appleby | ||
| Street:- | Boroughgate | |
| locality:- | Appleby | |
| civil parish:- | Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY68332040 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6820 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY62 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) |
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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 157:- "..." "... The entrance to the yard is by a handsome colonade built by Dr. Thomas Smith, bishop of Carlisle. ..." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Cloisters, The |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "THE CLOISTERS / / BOROUGHGATE / APPLEBY IN WESTMORLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 73616 / NY6833220406" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "1811 by R. Smirke, built as a visual termination of the lower end of the main street. Arcade of seven pointed arches in ashlar, the centre three arches being open and giving access to the churchyard by a rear gate. Over the arcade is a battlemented parapet. The centre portion is stepped up and has the Appleby arms and date 1811 in a quatrefoil panel. At each end of the arcade is a square two-storey tower with machicolated parapet, square-headed door and window in lower storey, and lancets above with hood-moulds, and lancets above with hood-moulds. Right hand tower (east) is a shop, No. 1 Boroughgate." |
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