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| Holy Trinity, Chapel Stile | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Holy Trinity Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Langdale Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chapel Stile Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| locality:- | Chapel Stile | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| locality:- | Great Langdale | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| locality type:- | church | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| coordinates:- | NY32090550 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1Km square:- | NY3205 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| references:- | : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 8) placename:- Trinity 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. "Trinity Church (Per Curacy) / Grave Yard" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) |
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| source data:- | Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1
mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas
Jefferys, London, 1770. J5NY30NW.jpg "Chapel" church item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles
to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805. CY24NY30.jpg "Cha" church symbol; church or chapel item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | perhaps old print:- Wilkinson 1810 (plate 12) |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Langdale Chapel, Vale of Langdale, Cumberland,
by Joseph Wilkinson, engraved by William Frederick Wells, published by R Ackermann,
Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, London, 1810. click to enlargeWKN112.jpg Now replaced by Holy Trinity Church. Plate 12 in Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire. printed at bottom left, right, centre:- "The Revd. Jos: Wilkenson delt. / W. F. Wells sculpt. / Langdale Chapel, Vale of Langdale. / Published May 1. 1810. by R. Ackermann. 101. Strand. London." item:- Fell and Rock Climbing Club : MN4.12 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by
Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W
Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William
Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman,
Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd,
Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839. goto sourcePage 39:- "... The dependent chapel of Langdale, at the foot of Silver How, is small and neat, adapted to its congregation." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H |
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| source data:- | Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and
Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John
Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. GAR2NY30.jpg cross, a church item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 item:- pulpit; accident |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto source Page 147:- "... The little chapel is a good specimen of the churches of the vales. A few years since, the rotten old pulpit fell, with the clergyman, Mr. Frazer, in it, just after he had begun his sermon from the text "Behold, I come quickly." The pulpit fell on an elderly dame, who escaped wonderfully. Mr. Frazer, as soon as he found his feet, congratulated her on surviving such an adventure: but she tartly refused his sympathy, saying, "If I'd been kilt, I'd been reet sarrat, (rightly served), for you'd threatened ye'd be comin doon sune." ..." |
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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. NUR1NY30.jpg "LANGDALE" item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of the Holy Trinity |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY / / CHAPEL STILE / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452108 / NY3209305499" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Parish church of 1857 by J. A. Cory." "MATERIALS: Snecked local slate-stone rubble, light-brown freestone dressings, roughcast west front, graded-slate roof." "PLAN: Nave with long north aisle incorporating a vestry, south tower/porch, and lower chancel." "EXTERIOR: The church is mainly in Decorated style with an asymmetrical accent provided by the stout 3-stage south tower, incorporating the porch in its lower stage. It is unbuttressed and the upper stages are progressively narrower, beneath an embattled crown. The porch has a south doorway with continuous double chamfer, and cusped west window. In the second stage are small narrow windows and the upper stage has 2-light shoulder-headed openings with louvres. The nave west front has two 2- light windows and deep angle buttresses. South windows are square-headed with ogee- headed lights, comprising one 2-light window left of the tower and two 3-light windows to its right. The chancel south wall has a simpler 2-light window with cusped lights and without tracery, and the east window is 3-light Decorated. The north aisle, incorporating the vestry, is shorter than the nave and chancel and faces a steep bank. Its windows are similar to the chancel south window. It has only a 2- light west window, a 1-light vestry window on the north side and, in the east wall, a vestry 3-light window and doorway in a freestone surround." "INTERIOR: Four-bay arcades have octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. The nave has a 5-bay arched-brace roof on corbels, and the chancel has a similar but keeled 3- bay roof. The chancel arch is double chamfered, of which the inner order is on corbels. Walls are plastered. There are raised floorboards below pews. PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: Furnishings are generally undistinguished, of mid and late C19. The octagonal font is plain, the benches and choir stalls have shaped ends and the pulpit is octagonal with Gothic panelling. The communion rail incorporates a quatrefoil frieze and the reredos has Gothic panelling. There are several late C19 and early C20 windows, of which the Ascension window in the nave is signed by A.L. Moore (1910). There is a Boer War memorial brass plaque." "HISTORY: Parish church of 1857 by John A. Cory (1819-87), architect with offices in Carlisle and Durham, who built several churches in the north of England from the 1840s. He was County Surveyor of Cumberland 1862-68 before entering into partnership with C.J. Ferguson." "SOURCES:" "N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland, 1967, p 249." "REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of the Holy Trinity, Chapel Stile, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: [bullet] Holy Trinity is a modest C19 church but an essay in picturesque simplicity with its asymmetrical plan and stout tower. [bullet] The building showcases traditional local materials, complementing other such C19 buildings in the village. [bullet] The church is a landmark building on the hillside above the village and makes an important contribution to its historic character." |
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 CAN69.jpg Organ by W Rushworth and Sons, Liverpool, 1891. (taken 2.5.2014)  CAN70.jpg Mothers Union banner. (taken 2.5.2014)  CAN77.jpg War memorial, Boer War. (taken 2.5.2014)  BUU22.jpg (taken 18.6.2011)  CAN89.jpg (taken 2.5.2014) |
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 BUU13.jpg Clock, James Harrison, 1858-63. (taken 18.6.2011)  BUU14.jpg Pinwheel escapement (taken 18.6.2011)  BUU15.jpg Clock detail. (taken 18.6.2011) |
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 BLK03.jpg Engraved bottom, left, centre, right, and lower centre:- "The Revd. Jos. Wilkinson delt. / Langdale Chapel, Vale of Langdale / W. F. Wells sculpt. / Published May 7, 1810 by R. Ackerman, 101, Strand, London." (taken 17.11.2005) |
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| notes:- |
A chapel is noted here in a tenancy record of Baysbrown, 1571. The chapel was rebuilt
in 1751. It was taken down and rebuilt in 1857-58, architect John Cory, and became
a parish church in 1863. The church was enlarged a little in 1877; the vestry was
enlarged in 1901. |
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| : : church leaflet |
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| notes:- |
It is said that the first couple to be married here was Adam and Eve Fleming, 25 May
1835 - presumably the church was not licensed for marriages before this. Hartley Coleridge
celebrated this in a few lines:- |
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| "That Langdale is a Paradise We now may well believe, The chapel book thus certifies Here Adam married Eve. Alas! such earthly paradise Of lasting bliss is void, The cause of this first couple's joys Soon read we was a-Lloyd" |
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| The marriage was conducted by Rev Owen Lloyd. |
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| Baron 1925 |
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| notes:- |
The turret clock in the church tower was made by John Harrison, great grandson of
a brother of a more famous John, who had a business in Hull. the movement is a flat
bed design. It is identical to the clock at Meanwood, designed by Lord Grimethorpe,
who later designed the clock in the Houses of Parliament built by Edward John Dent. |
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| The clock was built 1858 but possibly not installed until it was well tested, perhaps
five years later. It was restored by Ian Haigh, Ambleside, 1982. In 1985 electric
winding was added by the Cumbria Clock Company. |
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| Sykes, Geoff: 2004: Big Ben's Country Cousin; the Story of Langdale Church Clock:::
(available at the church) |
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| person:- | historian : Trevelyan, G M |
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| place:- | burial place | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| His grave marked 'G. M. Trevelyan Historian of England'. |
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| person:- | : Holy Trinity |
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| place:- | Langdale / Carlisle Diocese | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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