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| St Mary, Lanercost | ||
| St Mary's Church | ||
| Lanercost Church | ||
| locality:- | Lanercost Priory | |
| locality:- | Lanercost | |
| civil parish:- | Burtholme (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church | |
| coordinates:- | NY55586372 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5563 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY56 | |
| references:- | : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 12 14) placename:- St Mary's Church |
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| 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. "St. Mary's Church (Per Curacy) / Grave Yard" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Nurse 1918 |
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| source data:- | Map, The Diocese of Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland, and
Lancashire North of the Sands, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by
Rev Euston J Nurse, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, 11
English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 2nd edn 1939. NUR1NY56.jpg "KIRKCAMBECK WITH LANERCOST" no symbol item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St Mary item:- bread, charity (?) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST MARY / / / BURTHOLME / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / I / 78137 / NY5558963726" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Parish church, formerly nave of Lanercost Priory. Early C13 with C18 alterations. Calciferous and red sandstone from the nearby Roman Wall, graduated green slate roof. 8-bay nave and north aisle. Chamfered plinth, string courses, buttresses and dentilled moulded cornice. West entrance has pointed arch of 4 engaged columns and mouldings; arcade of engaged columns above with trefoil heads; large 3-light west window of pointed arches and engaged slender columns; flanking stepped buttresses; niche above with C13 carved stone figure of St Mary and flanking coats of arms of Sir Thomas Dacre. North aisle and clerestory lancet windows with hood moulds. South wall has blocked doorways to cloisters. East window was built in 1740 to separate ruined choir from the restored nave. Interior: north aisle arcade of pointed arches on octagonal columns. Clerestory arcades on clustered circular columns with pointed arches and dogtooth decoration. Barrel vaulted wooden ceiling was built in 1740 and repaired 1848-9. East window contains fragments of heraldic stained glass of 1559 for Sir Thomas Dacre from the nearby Dacre Hall. 2 Burne-Jones design stained glass windows in north aisle. Bronze plaque by Sir E. Boehm and Burne-Jones to Charles Howard, 1879. Serpentine and bronze plaques to members of the Howard family. Brass inscription from tomb of Sir Thomas Dacre. Blocked north entrance has remains of priory cross of 1214 (remains in grounds listed separately). Wooden bread cupboard with carved date 1707. C20 wooden steps to scriptorium. After the Dissolution the building was left in ruins until in 1739-40 the nave was reroofed as the parish church. See John R. H. Moorman, Lanercost Priory, 1983. Adjoining remains of the priory are listed separately." |
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| evidence:- | old print:- placename:- Lanercost Priory |
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| source data:- | Print, West Front of Lanercost Priory, Burtholme, Cumberland, by Luke Clennell, engraved
by John Greig, published by Longman and Co, Paternoster Row, London, 1814. click to enlargePR1170.jpg West front of Lanercost Priory; in the foreground a couple are seated in a patch of sunlight beside the path leading towards its entrance. Used in Scott's Border Antiquities of England and Scotland. printed at bottom centre:- "Engraved by J. Greig, from a Painting by L.Clennell, for the Border Antiquities of England and Scotland WEST FRONT OF LANERCOST PRIORY Cumberland London. Published May 1 1815 for the Proprietors, by Longman and Co., Paternoster Row." item:- Tullie House Museum : 1976.169.1.9A Image © Tullie House Museum |
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| evidence:- | old print:- placename:- Lanercost Priory |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured engraving, Lanercost Priory, Cumberland, engraved by Sparrow, published
by Samuel Hooper, 1783. click to enlargePR0212.jpg printed at bottom right, centre:- "Sparrow Sc. / LANERCOST PRIORY, CUMBERLAND. / Published 20 Oct. 1783 by S. Hooper." item:- Dove Cottage : 2008.107.212 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BOW31.jpg Organ. (taken 21.3.2008)  CEM81.jpg Organ. (taken 25.1.2016)  CEM78.jpg Mothers Union banner. (taken 25.1.2016)  CEM79.jpg Parish chest. (taken 25.1.2016)  CEM80.jpg Plaque:- "ROBERTUS DE VALLIBUS / FILIUS HUBERTI DNS DE / GILSLAND FUNDATOR / PRIORATUS DE LANERCOST / AO DNI 1116 ADAENGAINE / UXOR EIUS SINE PROLE / Revdus Geo. Story A.M. hujus Ecclesiae / Pastor grato Animo hunc Lapidem posuit / A.D. 1761" (taken 25.1.2016)  CEM82.jpg Cupboard:- "1707" (taken 25.1.2016)  BOW33.jpg (taken 21.3.2008)  CEM62.jpg (taken 25.1.2016) |
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| person:- | doctor : Addison, Thomas |
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| place:- | burial place | |
| item:- | pneumonia; pulmonary phthisis; Essay of Disease of the Supra-renal Capsules; disease; Addison's Disease |
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| Thomas Addison, b.1793 d.1860, was a physician. He researched pneumonia and increased
our knowledge of pulmonary phthisis. His best known work is an 'Essay of Disease of
the Supra-renal Capsules' 1853, describing a disease now called Addison's Disease. |
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| dedication | ||
| person:- | : St Mary Magdalene |
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| place:- | Lanercost (?) / Carlisle Diocese | |
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