Old Cumbria Gazetteer - All Saints, Raughton Head

All Saints, Raughton Head

All Saints Church

Raughton Head Church

locality:-

Raughton Head

civil parish:-

Dalston (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY37934557

1Km square:-

NY3745

10Km square:-

NY34

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BNH96.jpg (taken 9.3.2007)
photograph

BNH97.jpg (taken 9.3.2007)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 30 15)

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.
"Church (Per Curacy) / Grave Yard"
next SE is "Chapel House / sundial"

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Roughtonhead Chapel

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.

D4NY34NE.jpg
"Roughtonhead Chap."
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house and church
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old map:- Nurse 1918

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.

NUR1NY34.jpg
"GATESGILL WITH RAUGHTON HEAD"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

stained glass

kneelers

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Raughton Head Church

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"RAUGHTON HEAD CHURCH / / / DALSTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 78331 / NY3793145577"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Chapel now Church. East-wall inscription THIS CHAPEL WAS REBUILT A.D.1761, JOHN BEWLEY, CURATE, GEO MARTINDALE, JOHN SANDERSON, CHAPEL WARDENS; also built into east wall the lintel from the earlier chapel inscribed EDW CARLIOL ME CONSECRAVIT JULY 21 1678; additions of 1881, dated by brass plaque on vestry door. Mixed red and calciferous sandstone rubble with red sandstone V-jointed quoins on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; flat roof on tower. Large square west 2-storey tower/porch; 5-bay nave/chancel with north vestry. West entrance in quoined surround with keystone; narrow round-headed window above. Upper part of tower of 1881 with Norman style louvred vents. Semicircular stair turret projects from north wall. Nave/chancel: large C18 leaded windows in round-arched surrounds with keystones. Tripartite east window. 1881 north vestry. Interior: parts of the chancel screen and panelling may be reused wood from box pews. Pulpit made of reused carved oak panel with Latin inscription and M.W. 1628. Carved oak Bishop's seat is dated 1884. Oak panelled chest with initials G.C. and date 1715. Various white marble wall plaques, one to the Reverend Robert Monkhouse of 1822 by Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson. Late C19 and early C20 stained glass. Seating of 1881."

memorials

incumbents:-

Simpson, George	1700 -
Wilson, Richard	1705 -
Holme, William	1713 -
Richardson, Thomas	1718 -
Johnson, Isaac	1724 -
Clark, Abraham	1726 -
Mandevil, Richard	1731 -
Bewley, John	1751 -
Hindson, Joseph	1774 -
Denton, Henry	1787 -
Monkhouse, William	1789 -
Monkhouse, Henry	1828 -
Kitching, John	1840 -
Cheese, Edward	1858 -
Malden, Clifton	1860 -
MacCartie, Joseph	1865 -
Richmond, Thomas Knyvett	1874 -
Carter, John	1878 -
Dewick, Francis Ernest	1901 -
Stones, Frank Deighton	1910 -

BNH98.jpg Organ, 1881.
(taken 9.3.2007)
photograph

BZL89.jpg Banner.
(taken 18.10.2013)
photograph

BZM56.jpg Pulpit
(taken 18.10.2013)
photograph

BZM57.jpg Pulpit, inscription:-
"DONUM M W / ANO. D 1628" (taken 18.10.2013)
photograph

BZM58.jpg Chest.
(taken 18.10.2013)

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CDQ76.jpg Plan of church and churchyard.
(taken 14.8.2015)
photograph

CDQ77.jpg Boot scraper.
(taken 14.8.2015)

notes:-

This was once a chapel of ease to Castle Sowerby. Being in ruins it was rebuilt in 1678; it was restored again 1760; and again 1881, when the tower was built.

Up to 1936 it had no name; in that year it was dedicated to All Saints by Bishop Williams.

: : church leaflet

dedication

person:-

: All Saints

place:-

Raughton Head / Carlisle Diocese

person:-

poet
: Blamire, Susanna

place:-

burial place

date:-

1794

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