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Holy Trinity, Casterton
Holy Trinity Church
Casterton Church
locality:-   Casterton
civil parish:-   Casterton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD62467969
1Km square:-   SD6279
10Km square:-   SD67
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

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BNB40.jpg (taken 1.12.2006)  
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BNB41.jpg (taken 7.2.2009)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 48 5) 
placename:-  Trinity Church
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.
"Trinity Ch. / Per Curacy"
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.
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NUR1SD68.jpg
"CASTERTON"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page
 stained glass
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of Holy Trinity
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY / / / CASTERTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75616 / SD6246079687"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. 1831-3, chancel c1860, by Crowther. Rock-faced limestone with ashlar dressings, chancel of rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Nave with west tower; chancel with north organ loft. 6-bay nave has gabled south porch and small gabled vestry opposite. Wide eaves and verges, scrolly gutter brackets. Weathered buttresses alternate with lancet windows with continuous hoodmould; diagonal buttresses. Porch has pointed arch. Tower has diagonal buttresses, chamfered angles to bell stage; which has louvred pointed bell openings with hoodmoulds, cornice and ashlar parapet with raised angles. West face has window with 4-centred head and label mould, with triangular-headed window above, and clock face below bell opening. Vestry has east entrance and north window. Chancel has weathered base and sill course; steep roof with coped gable with cross. 3 stepped lancets to east end have hoodmoulds. South side has trefoil-headed entrance and 3 lancets; north side has lancet to east of gabled organ loft with weathered buttress and coped gable. Interior: Nave has scissor truss roof with collars and kingposts. Wall paintings by J. CLarke c1905-10, painted on canvas. 2 wall memorials with gothic detail; Rev W. Carus Wilson (1859) and W.W. Carus Wilson (1851). Windows have plain irregular glass in abstract patterns, but west windows have glass by H. Holiday 1894-7. Tower arch to baptistry; octagonal font on clustered shafts, wall tablets with gothic detail and window by Shrigley and Hunt. Hanoverian arms in relief over entrance. Chancel arch has corbelled trefoil shafts; arch to left has screen with open tracery and iron grille to arch. Chancel has collar rafter roof, reredos has blind tracery and relief panel, communion rail with wrought iron diaper work, timber pulpit, lectern and stalls with pierced tracery panels; most fittings probably by Paley and Austin. Wall paintings and stained glass by H. Holiday, 1894-7. Founded by Rev William Carus Wilson, who also founded the Clergy Daughters' School, attended by Charlotte Bronte (when it was at Cowan Bridge), and who is believed to be the model for a character in Jane Eyre."
evidence:-   old print:- Johnson c1900
source data:-   Print, halftone, Casterton Church, Holy Trinity Church, Westmorland, from a photograph by Bourne, published by Thomas Johnson, 30 Church Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, about 1900.
image  click to enlarge
JSN404.jpg
Opposite p.8 in The Gossiping Guide to Kirkby Lonsdale. 
printed at lower right:-  "BOURNE"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1612.A4
Image © see bottom of page
 ring of bells

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BNB39.jpg (taken 1.12.2006)  
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BQY48.jpg  Organ.
(taken 1.7.2009)  
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BNB42.jpg  One of the wall paintings.
(taken 1.12.2006)  
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BNB46.jpg  Coat of arms, George
(taken 1.12.2006)  
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CCE85.jpg  Memorial, William Carus Wilson, d.1859.
(taken 1.12.2006)  
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BQY49.jpg  Poor box.
(taken 1.7.2009)  
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BQY50.jpg  Poor box.
(taken 1.7.2009)  

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CCE86.jpg  1892.
(taken 5.12.2014)  
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CCE87.jpg  1891.
(taken 5.12.2014)  
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CCE88.jpg  From a sketch by Rev Shepherd, 1864.
(taken 5.12.2014)  
notes:-  
 Built 1833. The church was 'for the school and the community' and was founded by Rev William Carus-Wilson, who also founded the Clergy Daughters' School, which is now Casterton School.
The wall paintings were paid for by Canon A D Burton, the Misses Bickersteth of Casterton Hall, and public subscription, 1900s. The chief artists were Henry Holiday and James Clark.

: : church leaflet
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
date:-   1860
New chancel built.
Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Henry A
date:-   1897
New reredos.
dedication
person:-    : Holy Trinity
place:-   Casterton / Carlisle Diocese
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