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Nunnery, Ainstable
Nunnery
Armathwaite Nunnery
civil parish:-   Ainstable (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   religious house (ex) 
locality type:-   nunnery (ex) 
coordinates:-   NY53724285 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY5342
10Km square:-   NY54

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evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 40) 
placename:-  Armathwaite Nunnery
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.
"Site of Armathwaite Nunnery"
evidence:-   map:- 
source data:-   : 1954: Monastic Britain: Ordnance Survey
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Nunnye
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus.  "Nunnye"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Nunnye
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.
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"Nunnye"
circle 
item:-  JandMN : 169
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Nunny
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Nunny"
circle, tower 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Nunny
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Nunny"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Nunnery
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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"Nunnery"
Circle. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   probably old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Runny
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"Runny"
circle and line 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Nunnery
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Nunnery"
house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Nicolson and Burn 1777
placename:-  Nunnery
source data:-   Book, History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, 2 volumes, by Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, published by W Strahan and T Cadell, Strand, London, 1777.
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"Upon a bedhead at Nunnery, called the nun's bed, is this inscription;Mark the end and yow shall never doow amis."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
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.
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Page 191:-  "..."
"Nunnery in Ainstable parish was a small house of Benedictine nuns, founded by William Rufus a.r. 2. At the dissolution here were only a prioress and three nuns, and their ample revenues were reduced to £.18. 18s. per annum. It was granted to William Graham, and passed by exchange to the Aglionbys present owners. On the head of a bed called the Nun's bed, is the rude inscription. Pl.X. fig.8."
evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Nunnery
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Nunnery"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Nunnery, The
item:-  date stone (1694)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE NUNNERY / / / AINSTABLE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 73441 / NY5372642849"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"STABLE BLOCK TO NORTH WEST OF THE NUNNERY / / / AINSTABLE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73442 / NY5372442878"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SUMMER HOUSE SOUTH OF THE NUNNERY / / / AINSTABLE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73443 / NY5366742386"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Summer House. Early C19, incorporating early C15 features, C20 roof. Sandstone rubble walls, carved red sandstone panels; timber roof with asphalt covering. Small open fronted building with wooden seats inside. Rear wall has 8 panels of coats of arms, 5 of which are thought to have come to The Nunnery in 1778 from a tomb to the Denton family in St Cuthbert's Church, Carlisle. Arms are thought to be of the Dentons, Skelton of Branthwaite conjoined with Copeland, Copeland conjoined with Denton, Curwen and one undetermined being badly weathered. See, Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian &Archaeological Society, new series, vol xvii, p.13-15."
hearsay:-  
 Built by Henry Aglionby, 1715, but the rear of the building is said to include parts of a Benedictine nunnery of the early 13th century.
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