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St Mark, Natland
St Mark's Church
Natland Church
locality:-   Natland
civil parish:-   Natland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD52118920
1Km square:-   SD5289
10Km square:-   SD58
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BJU73.jpg (taken 12.9.2005)  
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BQL41.jpg (taken 26.4.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 16) 
placename:-  St Mark's 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.
"St Mark's Church (Per Curacy)"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
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.
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J5SD58NW.jpg
church 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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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NUR1SD58.jpg
"NATLAND"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Mark
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARK / / / NATLAND / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76455 / SD5210789200"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church 1909-1910. By Paley and Austin. Roughly coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; graduated greenslate roof; stone ridge. Late Decorated/early Perpendicular style. West Tower, nave with aisles, chancel, vestry to North, porch to South. 3-stage tower has plinth, diagonal buttresses, string course to each stage, battlemented parapet. Battlemented stair turret rises above roof of tower at North East corner. Battlemented porch has 2-centred opening with hood mould and labels with plain shields. 3-light traceried windows in pointed surrounds. Interior: 4-bay nave, 3-bay chancel. Massive circular columns to tower and crossing. Piers to aisle arcades alternately round with capitals decorated with leaves or octagonal with capitals decorated with rosettes. East window designed by Gerald E.R. Smith and carried out by A.K. Nicholson, stained glass studios, inscribed: To the GLORY OF GOD in proud and grateful memory of all those who flew up in our defence between 1939 and 1945 and especially of Sub-Lieutenant (A) ERNEST MARK CECIL MAPLES RVVR May 25th 1944 aged 19 years. 5-light window design based on Benedictus: words from the 1st and 2nd verses of the canticle inscribed across base. Outer lights: Isaiah, St Alban and St Peter to left; St John the Baptist, St Augustine, St Mark to right. Inner lights: Annunciation to left, Nativity to right. Central light: The Lord reigning from the tree of life with David and Abraham below. In the base of the windows groups of figures led by St George with the rising sun of hope behind represent all those who served in the war including service personnel and civilians such as farmers and nurses and forms an important social record."

incumbents:-  
Head, Thomas  1735 -  
Wade, William  1738 -  
Godmond, James  1741 -  
Towson, William  1747 -  
Kendal, George  1777 -  
Briggs, Thomas  1804 -  
Thornbarrow, Thomas  1818 -  
Corry, John  1818 -  
Mackreth, Thomas  1819 -  
Fawcett, Joseph  1825 -  
Fisher, Ralph W  1828 -  
Sampson, John  1830 -  
Salmon, Frederick T  1861 -  
Bowman, Isaac  1863 -  
Inglis, James  1865 -  
Bannerman, Edward  1866 -  
Duncan, James I  1871 -  
Whitaker, Charles  1875 -  
Kewley, William  1897 -  
Miller, Edward J  1907 -  


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BSM14.jpg  Organ.
(taken 12.9.2005)  
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BXD08.jpg  Mothers Union banner
(taken 15.8.2012)  
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BJU74.jpg "DONATION FOR BREAD 1842 JOHN CREIGHTON OF NATLAND left nineteen guineas, the interest thereof to be given in bread, to poor householders attending divine service in this church." (taken 12.9.2005)  
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BXD03.jpg "THE INCORPORATED / CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY / GRANTED L100, A.D. 1822 &L70, / A.D. 1908 TOWARDS REBUILDING / THIS CHURCH, UPON CONDITION / THAT ALL THE SITTINGS ARE / FOR THE FREE USE OF THE / PARISHIONERS ACCORDING TO LAW." (taken 15.8.2012)  
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BXD02.jpg (taken 15.8.2012)  


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CBI10.jpg  Church plan, Paley and Austin, 1909-10.
(taken 1.8.2014)  

notes:-  
Built 1910, on the site of an earlier church.

Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Henry A
date:-   1909
 to 1910
New church in perpendicular style.

dedication
person:-    : St Mark
place:-   Natland / Carlisle Diocese

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