Old Cumbria Gazetteer - monastery, Dacre


	monastery, Dacre
	Dacre Monastery
locality:-	Dacre
civil parish:-	Dacre (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	monastery
locality type:-	religious house
coordinates:-	NY46002664 (about)
1Km square:-	NY4626
10Km square:-	NY42
SummaryText:-	St Andrew's Church is now built on this site.

evidence:-	old map:- Lloyd 1573 placename:- Daker
source data:-	Map, hand coloured copper plate engraving, Angliae Regni, Kingdom of England, with Wales, scale about 24 miles to 1 inch, authored by Humphrey Lloyd, Denbigh, Clwyd, drawn and engraved by Abraham Ortelius, Netherlands, 1573. click to enlarge Lld1Cm.jpg "Daker" item:- Hampshire Museums : FA1998.69 Image © see bottom of page

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. goto source "..." "Dacre-Castle, ... was mentioned by Bede for having a Monastery there in his Time. ... but there are no Remains of a Monastery, nor does it appear by any Records that it has been standing since the Conquest." "William of Malmesbury takes Notice of its being the Place where Constantine, King of the Scots, and Eugenius, King of Cumberland, put themselves and their Kingdoms under the Protection of King Athelstane."

evidence:-	old text:- Camden 1789
source data:-	Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto source Page 173:- "..." "... on the little river Dacor, ... mentioned by Bede as having in his time a monastery, as also by Malmsbury, because Constantine, king of Scotland, and Eugenius, king of Cumberland, there put themselves and their kingdoms under the protection of Athelstan the Saxon."

evidence:-	old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)
source data:-	Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto source Page 188:- "..." "At Dacre ... here are no remains of the monastery, nor does it appear to have subsisted since the Conquest. ..." "..." "The church [Dacre] is said to have been erected by the Dacres, instead of a mean one half a mile distant, which probably belonged to the monastery. ..."

evidence:-	descriptive text:- Bede c731 placename:- Dacore item:- relics, St Cuthbert
source data:-
source data:-	Courtesy of Penguin Books (licence PM6935) "I cannot omit mention of a cure that took place through his [St Cuthbert's] relics three years ago, and was told me by the very brother to whom it happened. It occurred in a monastery ... near the river of Dacore [Dacre by Penrith], from which it took its name, ... In this house lived a young man who developed a tumour on his eyelid which daily increased in size, and threatened to destroy the eye. Although the physicians applied poultices to reduce it, they had no success: some advised cutting it out, while others opposed this, fearing graver complications. So the brother suffered great pain for a long time, and felt that no human skill could prevent the loss of his eye, whose condition was deteriorating daily, ..." "... [he] took the hairs of holy Cuthbert's head in his hand and applied them to his eyelid, attempting to soften and reduce the swelling by holding them there for a while. He then replaced the relics in their casket ... believing that his eye would soon be cured by the application of the man of God's hair. Nor was his faith in vain. For, as he tells, it was about Terce, and thenceforward he was busy about the day's duties until nearly Sext, when he suddenly felt his eye, and found both it and the lid sound, as though there had never been any deformity or swelling on it."

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