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| meeting house, Mosedale | ||
| Mosedale Meeting House | ||
| locality:- | Mosedale | |
| civil parish:- | Mungrisdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | meeting house | |
| locality type:- | quaker meeting | |
| locality type:- | chapel | |
| locality type:- | quaker burial ground | |
| locality type:- | burial ground | |
| coordinates:- | NY35683223 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3532 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY33 | |
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 BLP62.jpg (taken 4.2.2006)  BLP63.jpg Over the door:- "1702 FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE" (taken 4.2.2006) |
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| evidence:- | text:- placename:- Mosedale Meeting House |
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| source data:- | : : Quaker Administrative History "MOSEDALE, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... NY356327" "1668-1831 ... Caldbeck MM" "1831-1864 ... Carlisle MM" "1977- ... Carlisle &Holm MM" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Backhouse 1773 placename:- Mosedale meeting |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Map of the Meetings belonging to
the Quarterly Meetings of Lancaster, Westmorland, Cumberland,
Northumberland, Durham and York, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch,
by James Backhouse, engraved by Thomas Kitchin, published by
James Backhouse, Darlington, Durham, 1773. BKH2Cldb.jpg labelled:- "Mosedale / 0.5" meeting day Thursday item:- private collection : 224 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 95:- "... Mossdale, where there is a Quakers' meeting-house, at the foot of Carrick Fell, is not more pleasantly situated than Grisdale; indeed, the tourist now comes upon a portion of country wild and desolate in the extreme, ..." |
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| evidence:- | drawing:- Butler 1978 placename:- Mosedale Meeting House |
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| source data:- | Mosedale Meeting House drawn by David Butler and published in Quaker Meeting Houses
of the Lake Counties by David M Butler, by the Friends Historical Society, 1978 courtesy of David Butler  click to enlargePR1514.jpg  click to enlargePR1515.jpg item:- private collection : 377 Images © Friends Historical Society |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 item:- date stone (1702) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND ADJOINING STABLES / / / MUNGRISDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73545 / NY3569232236" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Friends' Meeting House/tearoom, with adjoining stables. On C17 site, rebuilding dated over entrance 1702 with C19 inscription FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE; 1970's extension. Partly rendered mixed limestone and slate rubble, stables with flush sandstone quoins. Graduated greenslate roofs. Single-storey 3-bay meeting house with C20 single-bay extension under common roof; C18 right-angled extension to right and lower stable to left, making overall L-shape. Facade to road has plank door in chamfered surround. Stable has plank door to right and small opening to left. Rear of meeting house has 2-light stone-mullioned windows, with matching window in C20 extension and similar contemporary window in side wall of the C18 extension. Interior retains much of its original fitting although used as a tearoom. C18 benches, wooden panelling behind railed minister's gallery. Roof trusses supported on 2 sandstone columns. Windows retain chains for pulling up internal shutters from the outside. Meetings were discontinued in 1913 and it was used as a Church of England chapel from 1936-1970. See David Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978 pp73-76, plans and drawings." |
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 BVD96.jpg Burial ground, (taken 9.8.2011)  BVD97.jpg Burial ground, gate (taken 9.8.2011) |
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