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Cloisters, Appleby
Street:-   Boroughgate
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY68332040
1Km square:-   NY6820
10Km square:-   NY62
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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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.
image CAM2P157, button  goto source
Page 157:-  "..."
"... The entrance to the yard is by a handsome colonade built by Dr. Thomas Smith, bishop of Carlisle. ..."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Cloisters, The
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE CLOISTERS / / BOROUGHGATE / APPLEBY IN WESTMORLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 73616 / NY6833220406"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"1811 by R. Smirke, built as a visual termination of the lower end of the main street. Arcade of seven pointed arches in ashlar, the centre three arches being open and giving access to the churchyard by a rear gate. Over the arcade is a battlemented parapet. The centre portion is stepped up and has the Appleby arms and date 1811 in a quatrefoil panel. At each end of the arcade is a square two-storey tower with machicolated parapet, square-headed door and window in lower storey, and lancets above with hood-moulds, and lancets above with hood-moulds. Right hand tower (east) is a shop, No. 1 Boroughgate."

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