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St Michael, Bongate
St Michael's Church
Appleby Church
Street:-   Bongate
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church (disused, except for churchyard) 
coordinates:-   NY68861987
1Km square:-   NY6819
10Km square:-   NY61

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BNG19.jpg (taken 23.2.2007)  
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BWG16.jpg (taken 13.4.2012)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 15 3) 
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 (Vicarage) / Grave Yard"
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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Page 1023:-  "... the greatest Benefactress to this Town [Appleby] was the Lady Anne, Daughter and Heiress of George Lord Clifford, who ... wholly rebuilt the Church at Bongate, which is a Part of this Town."
evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 138  "... I passed by the little church of Bondgate, so called from its having been in feudal times"
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 139  "the seat of the villains or bondsmen attendant on the castle. It is likewise, from its tutelar saint, called St. Michael's. This is one of the churches repaired by the piety of Anne Clifford. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Nurse 1918
placename:-  St Michael's Church
placename:-  Appleby church
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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"ST. MICHAEL BONGATE"
In the errata:-  "Appleby, St. Michael (not St. Michael, Bongate) with Murton-cum-Hilton (held in plurality)."
item:-  JandMN : 27
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evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Parish Church of St Michael Bongate, Appleby, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290? published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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On p.7 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
RCHME no. Wmd, Appleby 2 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.5
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Michael
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL / / BONGATE / APPLEBY IN WESTMORLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 73604 / NY6886419885"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Saxon fragments, C13 south door, C14 south arcade and transept. Much restored by Lady Anne Clifford in 1659. Restored again and north tower added in 1885. Coursed red sandstone rubble with slate roofs. Nave, chancel, south transept, north tower. Decorated window tracery, mostly renewed in the C17. Decorated tower, castellated with corner turrets and crocketted pinnacles. Decorated five bay arcade which may have been reconstructed in 1885, and chancel arch. 1885 choir screen. Timber roofs, with arch braced collars to nave. Saxon north door. Late C14 effigy of Elizabeth Clifford. CIA headstones to churchyard."
evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  hogback gravestone
source data:-   Used as a lintel:-
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Inside face. 
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Outside face. 
Sketches by W G Collingwood 
item:-  JandMN : 190
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evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  St Michael's Church
item:-  hogback gravestone
source data:-   Drawing, Hogback, St Michael's Church, Bongate, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Westmorland, by William Gershom Collingwood, 1899.
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Sketch of a hogback with carved decoration of plaiting. The hogback dates from AD 10th century? 
Drawn to illustrate Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carlisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, published by T Wilson, Kendal 1899; opposite p.59. 
inscribed at bottom centre:-  "Hogback; St Michael's, Appleby"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1902.18.41
Image © Tullie House Museum
evidence:-   old print:- Pennant 1773 (edn 1801) 
source data:-   Print, engraving, Appleby Castle, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Westmorland, drawn by Moses Griffith, engraved and published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
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Tipped in opposite p.139 of A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant. 
St Michael's Church, Bongate in the foreground. 
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "Moses Griffith. Del / E Harding Sc / APPLEBY CASTLE / Pub June 1 1801 by Edw Harding 98 Pall Mall."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1057.20
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incumbents:-  
Headwell, Walter  1256 -  
Bradewood, Richard de  1302 -  
Apleby, Henry de  1339 -  
Aslackby, Richard de  1362 -  
Merton, John de  1369 -  
Raynald, John  1369 -  
Marshall, John  1452 -  
Lancaster, George 
Smith, John  1561 -  
Scott, Gregory  1569 -  
Burton, Thomas  1576 -  
Fairfax, Thomas  1579 -  
Porter, William  1582 -  
Teasdale, John  1611 -  
Spencer, John 
Symson, Robert  1634 -  
Symson, Barnaby  1661 -  
Cock, James  1712 -  
Shaw, Harrison  1789 -  
Bellas, Thomas  1823 -  
Warren, Albert  1880 -  
notes:-  
 Described in:-

Butler, Lawrence (ed): 2011: Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne for Cumbria, 1833-1872: CWAAS:: ISBN 978 1 873124 52 9
Extracted from the original notes made by Sir Stephen, now in Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Flintshire, contact through Flintshire Record Office

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BNG20.jpg (taken 23.2.2007)  
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BNG21.jpg  Inscribed stone in the church porch:-
"VETUS / APPULBI / [ V]B[ ] / MILLAN[I] / MANENT[ ] / MCXCIX" (taken 23.2.2007)  
notes:-  
 The church was restored by Lady Anne Pembroke in 1659. The Tower was added in the 19th century. It is now a private residence.

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