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St Patrick, Bampton
St Patrick's Church
Bampton Church
locality:-   Bampton Grange
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY52151804
1Km square:-   NY5218
10Km square:-   NY51
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BJT70.jpg (taken 22.8.2005)  
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BJT73.jpg  Oak arcading in a renaissance style.
(taken 22.8.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 13 8) 
placename:-  St Patrick'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.

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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J5NY51NW.jpg
church at Grange 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
image G825A515, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1825 part 1 p.515  "Compendium of County History. - Westmorland."
"... Bishop Gibson, who also erected a monument in the church to his father and mother, with a modest Latin inscription. ..."

evidence:-   perhaps fiction:- Trollope 1864
placename:-  Vavasor Church
source data:-   image TROLLOP1, button  goto source
chapter 31 Among the Fells  "The whole party went to church on this Christmas morning. The small parish church of Vavasor, and unpretending wooden structure, with a single bell which might be heard tinkling for a mile or two over the fells, stood all alone about half a mile from the Squire's gate."

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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NUR1NY51.jpg
"BAMPTON"
United benefice with Mardale, one parish. 
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Patrick
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST PATRICK / / BAMPTON GRANGE / BAMPTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 74482 / NY5215718040"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church. 1726-28 on medieval site with 1804 restoration. Large blocks of calciferous sandstone with V-jointed quoins, partly rendered, on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finials, being relaid in 1986. 7-bay with west square 3-storey tower/porch; 2-bay chancel. Tower has west double plank doors and overlight in pilastered surround under broken segmental pediment. 2-light round-headed windows and bell openings. Nave has tall round-headed windows in stone surrounds with false keystones. At the west end of both the north and south walls is a doorway, blocked on the south. Chancel has similar windows and a triple round-headed east window. At various points around the walls C18 gravestones have been set in."
"INTERIOR: 3-bay timber arcades of round arches of Tuscan columns. Barrel vaulted timber roof. C18 panelled pulpit and pews containing earlier panels one dated 1684. C18, C19 and C20 white marble wall plaques. Square C12 font bowl on C20 plinth, the bowl inscribed: 'MW 1662'. One C19 figurative stained-glass window. Chancel has C19 stained-glass east window by Ward and Hughes. C19 white marble wall plaques to members of the Noble family. Early C18 turned-baluster communion rails. Parish register records that the church was consecrated on 20 June 1728 by the Bishop of Carlisle. See RCHM, Westmorland, 1936, pp28-9."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
item:-  Thompson Monument
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THOMPSON MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 7 METRES TO SOUTH OF ST PATRICK'S CHURCH / / BAMPTON GRANGE / BAMPTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74483 / NY5216018028"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Chest tomb. Date of death 1760. Ashlar. Sides have 2 incised ellipses between narrow rectangular incised panels; ends have similar octagons between fluted panels. Plain top slab records Matthew Thompson (died 1760), his wife, Elizabeth (died 1785), and son, Matthew (died 1807)."

 ring of bells

incumbents:-  
Barton, Roger de  1300 -  
Appleby, John de  1309 -  
Askeby, John de  1362 -  about 
Bampton, John  1378 -  
Harper, Edward  1535 -  
Harrison, John  1565 -  
Winter, Roland  1567 -  
Simpson, Christopher  1580 -  
Scott, Barnabas  1586 -  
Atkinson, James  1637 -  
Wilkinson, Matthew  1641 -  
Dalton, John  1669 -  
Knott, Thomas  1672 -  
Wearing, Thomas  1698 -  
Stephenson, William  1742 -  
Langhorn, William  1763 -  
Kilner, Thomas  1776 -  
Pearson, Thomas  1800 -  
Hodgson, William  1834 -  
Darling, James  1862 -  
Day, George E F  1883 -  


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BUA50.jpg (taken 10.2.2011)  
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BUA51.jpg (taken 10.2.2011)  
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CAS84.jpg (taken 23.5.2014)  
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CAS82.jpg  Pews, 1684
(taken 23.5.2014)  
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BSO27.jpg  Pews, 1684
(taken 11.3.2009)  
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CAS83.jpg  Pews, 1684
(taken 23.5.2014)  
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BQF96.jpg  Organ, by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal.
(taken 11.3.2009)  
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CAS81.jpg  Organ, by Wilkinson and Sons, Kendal.
"WILKINSON &SONS / KENDAL" (taken 23.5.2014)  
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BQF97.jpg  Organ pipes.
(taken 11.3.2009)  
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BSO25.jpg  Organ pipes.
(taken 23.4.2010)  
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BSO24.jpg  Parish chest.
(taken 11.3.2009)  
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BUA49.jpg  Parish chest.
(taken 10.2.2011)  
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BSO26.jpg  Parish chest.
(taken 11.3.2009)  
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BUA52.jpg  The Ten Commandments.
(taken 10.2.2011)  
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BUA53.jpg  The Ten Commandments.
(taken 10.2.2011)  
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BJT71.jpg  Turret clock, three legged gravity escapement.
(taken 22.8.2005)  
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BJT72.jpg  by:-
"W. POTTS &SONS, LTD. / MAKERS 1909 / LEEDS, ENGLAND" (taken 22.8.2005)  
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BQF92.jpg  Portrait of Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, by Johan Van der Bransk.
(taken 11.3.2009)  
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BQF93.jpg  Memorial:-
"Memoria Sacrum / EDMUNDI ET JANE GIBSON / Charissimorum Parentum, / Monumentum hoc posuit / EDMUNDUX Episcopus LONDINENSIS / Anno Domini MDCCXLIII" Placed here by Edmund Gibson in memory of his parents.
(taken 11.3.2009)  
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BUA48.jpg  Memorial to Vice Admiral Sir Charles Richardson, died 1850.
(taken 10.2.2011)  
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BWH34.jpg  Memorial, William Birket, writing master, died 1716
(taken 27.4.2012)  
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BQF95.jpg  Portrait of John Boustead, vicar and master of Bampton Grammar School, died 1841, by James Ward.
(taken 11.3.2009)  
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CCY52.jpg  War memorial.
(taken 1.5.2015)  
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BSO21.jpg  Gravestone with funerary plate.
(taken 23.4.2010)  
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BSO22.jpg  Gravestone with funerary plate.
(taken 23.4.2010)  
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BSO23.jpg  Gravestone with funerary plates.
(taken 23.4.2010)  
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BWH37.jpg  Weathervane, cock, 1726.
(taken 27.4.2012)  


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BSO29.jpg  Photo by:-
"E. FOWLER RICHARDS / 'THE' STUDIO, PENRITH" (taken 23.4.2010)  

notes:-  
There has been a church here since before 1170, there is a record of its being attached to Shap Abbey at that date. It was its own parish by 1291. An earlier church was pulled down and replaced by a new building, 1726-27. There was extensive restoration in 1885: new roof, new tower and chancel arches, rebuilt chancel, and numerous fittings.

: : church leaflet

dedication
person:-    : St Patrick
place:-   Bampton / Carlisle Diocese

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