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High Head Chapel, High Head Castle
High Head Chapel
locality:-   High Head Castle
civil parish:-   Skelton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY40434360
1Km square:-   NY4043
10Km square:-   NY44
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 38 4) 
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.
"Chapel"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  High Head Chapel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HIGH HEAD CHAPEL / / / SKELTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73951 / NY4043143604"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Private chapel for High Head Castle now disused. Dated and inscribed over entrance CHRISTOPHER RICHMOND ESQ, EDWARD HASELL ESQ, ANNO DOMINI 1682 with C18 alterations. Red sandstone rubble walls partly covered with cement render. Graduated greenslate roof with east cross finial and west open bellcote. 5-bay nave/chancel. South-west C18 segmental-arched doorway and pointed-arched window openings, all with red sandstone surrounds. One blocked 2-light stone-mullioned window shows where render has fallen away. Small west C17 chamfered-surround opening. North wall has one pointed-arched window and one C17 2-light stone-mullioned window. Larger east pointed-arched window, under C17 stone inscribed with the churchwardens' names. Interior has partitioned porch and boarded ceilings. Panelled pews, partly removed, along with all other furnishing and fittings. Windows and doors removed;and derelict at the time of survey."

incumbents:-  
Pool, William  1707 -  
Relph, Samuel  1707 -  
Myles, Gulielmus  1721 -  
Reid, John  1725 -  
Robinson, Matthew  1770 -  
Cowper, Matthew  1774 -  
Ashbridge, Joseph  1776 -  
Mars, James  1777 -  
Hudson, Joseph  1784 -  
Hudson, Samuel  1825 -  
Elliott, Hugh  1827 -  
Hudson, Joseph  1839 -  
Dugdale, Richard 
Hulton, Arthur Emilius  1853 -  
Phillips, Thompson  1868 -  
Dixon, Frederick  1893 -  
Sully, William  1900 -  

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