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St Michael, Bowness-on-Solway
St Michael's Church
Bowness-on-Solway Church
locality:-   Bowness-on-Solway
civil parish:-   Bowness (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY22376265
1Km square:-   NY2262
10Km square:-   NY26
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BMB18.jpg (taken 5.5.2006)  
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BMB19.jpg (taken 5.5.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 14 4) 
placename:-  St Michael'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. Michael's Church (Rectory) / Grave Yard / War Meml."

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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NUR1NY26.jpg
"BOWNESS-ON-SOLWAY"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

 notes about bells

 stained glass

 kneelers

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Michael
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL / / / BOWNESS / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 71895 / NY2237662646"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. C12 with C18 restoration and 1891 extensions. Coursed red and calciferous sandstone (from the nearby Roman Wall) on chamfered plinth; extensions of dressed red sandstone on chamfered plinth; graduated greenslate roof with coped gables. 4-bay nave, south gabled porch, west open twin bellcote, C19 north transept: single-bay chancel under common roof, with C19 north vestry. Chamfered-surround south door; north door in moulded surround with carved stone leaf capitals. One blocked original lancet in south wall and similar window in north wall, others are C19 single and paired lancets. Chancel: 3-light C19 east and south windows, one original lancet between vestry and chancel. Norman font on 1848 shaft is octagonal at base of bowl and square at top: leaf decoration with beaded strips and stems. Bells now inside church are 1616 and medieval. C19 chancel arch. Early C20 furnishings and fittings."

 cross slab gravestones

incumbents:-  
Richmond, Roald de  1300 -  
Northburgh, Reginald de  1307 -  
Walter 
Kirkby Thore, William de  1342 -  
Hall, William de  1354 -  
Barton, Thomas de  1381 -  
Bowness, William de  1399 -  
Robinson, John  - Kendal, John 
Taffentyre, William  1565 -  
Caye, Arthur  1572 -  
Taylor, James 
Lowther, Leonard  1580 -  
Sibson, Richard  1597 -  
Orbel, William  1617 -  
Warwick, Thomas  1629 -  
Warwick, Mr  1643 -  
Troutbeck, George  1660 -  
Aglionby, Henry  1691 -  
Lowther, Gerard  1697 -  
Lowther, Henry  1731 -  
Robinson, Hugh  1753 -  
Watson, James  1763 -  
Grisdale, Brown  1784 -  
Shaw, Harrison  1814 -  
Preston, William M  1823 -  
Huddleston, Andrew  1828 -  
Jenkins, John  1852 -  
Robinson, John  1855 -  
Medlicot, Samuel  1877 -  
Lindow, Samuel  1889 -  
Mitton, Launcelot Edgar Dury  1908 -  

 sundial


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BUH98.jpg  Organ.
(taken 3.4.2011)  
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BUH94.jpg  Font, Norman period.
(taken 3.4.2011)  
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BUI01.jpg  Banner, Mothers Union.
(taken 3.4.2011)  
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BUI02.jpg  Banner.
(taken 3.4.2011)  
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BUI03.jpg  Banner, detail, map of Bowness Parish.
(taken 3.4.2011)  
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BMB20.jpg  Memorial, with coat of arms, John Hodgson, d.1839. Motto:-
"BE EVER WATCHFUL" (taken 5.5.2006)  
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BUI04.jpg  Table of Kindred and Affinity.
(taken 3.4.2011)  
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BUH95.jpg  A half anker, used by smuggler's for rum etc.
(taken 3.4.2011)  


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BUI08.jpg  Hearse house.
(taken 3.4.2011)  
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BUI09.jpg  Plaque:-
"In Memory of / THOMAS PATTINSON / of EASTON GENTLEMAN / who was the Principal Benefactor / to this House and HEARSE / in the Year 1782" (taken 3.4.2011)  


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BUH99.jpg  Watercolour painting by G Wright, 1800.
(taken 3.4.2011)  


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BUI06.jpg  gravestone:-
"Here Lyes ye Body of / Thos. Stoal of ye Town of / Ramsey in ye Isle of Man who / Departed this Life ye [19]th / Day of Decr. 1755 Being [ ] / Y[e] 22nd Year of his Age / ..." (taken 3.4.2011)  
Thomas Stoal of the Isle of Man was drowned whilst on a smuggling trip. The gravestone of slate from Snaefell was carried, as a penance, by Thomas's wife from Maryport to Bowness.

notes:-  
The earliest record of the church is the appointment of Roald de Richmond as rector, 1300. Much of the stone in its building came from Hadrian's Wall and roman forts. It is believed that a place of worship, perhaps a church, might have existed in much earlier times.

: : church leaflet
: : St Michaels Bowness on Solway

Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Edward G
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Henry A
date:-   1891
Work in north transept.

dedication
person:-    : St Michael
place:-   Bowness on Solway / Carlisle Diocese

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