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Kearstwick Institute, Kearstwick
Kearstwick Institiute
civil parish:-   Kirkby Lonsdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   village hall
coordinates:-   SD60677992
1Km square:-   SD6079
10Km square:-   SD67
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BXU93.jpg (taken 10.2.2013)  
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BXU94.jpg (taken 10.2.2013)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Kearstwick Institiute
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"KEARSTWICK INSTITIUTE / / / KIRKBY LONSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75156 / SD6067279920"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"1902. Free Gothic. One storey hall. Squared coursed rubble. Slate roof, hipped, with small gablets. Three chimneys, that to left with two round stacks. Almost symmetrical facade to road, with two large Gothic windows in centre and dissimilar doorways at extreme ends. Angle buttresses die in to corners. Windows of late Gothic type with arched heads, mullion and transom, cusped ogee heads to lights and cusped circle at top. Small leaded lattice panes. Each window has small gable with wooden bracing. Left hand doorway has flat head but large trefoil tympanum. Right hand doorway has two-centred arch and jambs continuously moulded. Beside each door a plaque inset in square moulded surround, to left of St George and the Dragon, to right recording the donation of the building. Plank doors with ornamental iron furniture of different design. Elaborate iron rainwater heads. Left side elevation has two single light transom windows with ogee cusping and right side elvation one window of five similar lights, all square headed with lattice panes. Built by Henry and Olivia Bentinck of Underley Hall in memory of Thomas Earl of Bective."


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BXU95.jpg  Plaque: St George and the Dragon
(taken 10.2.2013)  
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BXV03.jpg (taken 10.2.2013)  

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