Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	All Saints Church
	other name:-	Bolton Church
	locality:-	Bolton
	parish	Bolton parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		church
	coordinates:-	NY639233
	10Km square:-	NY62
	References	: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5
	1Km square	NY6323
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- 30.5.2006
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- 30.5.2006
	old map:-	Nurse 1918
		Map, The Diocese of Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, now Cumbria, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Rev Euston J Nurse, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, 11 English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1918 and 2nd edn 1939.
		BOLTON
	site name:-	Appleby and Kirkby Stephen Rural Deanery
	site name:-	Archdeaconry of Carlisle
	site name:-	Diocese of Carlisle
	date:-	1939
	period:-	1930s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (Wmd)
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
		goto source.
		Bolton Chaple
		Circle, building and tower.
	placename:-	Bolton Chaple
	county:-	Westmorland
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS / / / BOLTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 73283 / NY6393323412
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Parish Church. C12 and C13 with later alterations; restored in 1848. Coursed, squared rubble with buttressing to east and west end. Graduated slate roofs (chancel lower) with stone copings and C17 apex finials; gabled bellcote to west end. 2 cell plan with former west tower now opened up to form part of aisleless nave; original nave string-course visible above gabled C18 south porch. C12 south door has single roll-moulding to semicircular head with rosette decoration to hoodmould. One jamb shaft survives. Each capital has a chip-carved abacus with a low-relief figure to the side; the left hand capital has scallop decoration, the right-hand one is moulded (possibly recut in C13). Partly blocked north nave door is similar with cushion capitals and billet ornament to hoodmould, but lacking both jamb shafts; 2 contemporary carved stones are set in the wall above, one depicts 2 knights jousting and the other bears a badly weathered inscription. On south side, single C18 window with semicircular head to left of porch and 2 similar to right, all diagonally leaded. Narrower chancel has square-headed C14/C15 window and 2 lancets, of which the second has had its sill raised to accommodate a square-headed C17 doorway; single C12 slit window, near east end in both north and south walls. 3-light east window is largely C19 under C14 pointed hoodmould. At west end, dogtooth ornamented trefoil heads to single-light windows on either side of central buttress originally formed a C13/C14 quatrefoil panel. Internally, plain semicircular C17 chancel arch has C19 traceried screen infill. Hemispherical font on square pedestal with chamfered base and capital has conical, ribbed, wooden cover initialled and dated T.G. W.H. 1687. Fastened to wall on east side of door is wooden poor box with dated inscription (now partly painted out) "1634 The pour mans box and churchwardens seat". Some re-used C17 panelling at west end with gallery above. Various commemorative wooden panels on nave walls give details of benefactors; an C18 memorial stone fastened externally to the south wall of the chancel records the gifts of James Hanson and his wife to the village school. A badly weathered C14 tomb effigy is set in the south wall of the nave to the left of the porch.
	placename:-	Church of All Saints
	district:-	Eden
		listed building
	coordinates:-	NY63932341
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		BOWNESS TABLE TOMB IN CHURCHYARD TO SOUTH OF CHANCEL / / / BOLTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73284 / NY6395223413
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Table-tomb with square corner supports. Inscription badly worn but small brass plate affixed near bottom of slab reads "Obit William Bowness December 11th 1767 Aged 82; Mary his Wife June 27th 1763 Aged 73. He gave in his lifetime Fifty Pounds to the School of Bolton." Table-tomb itself probably that of another William Bowness; a panel inside the church records that, in his will (dated February 9th 1709), he left "... an annual rent of ten shillings to be distributed upon his tomb stone to the poor of Bolton ... on the feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle yearly for ever."
	district:-	Eden
		listed building -- gravestone
	coordinates:-	NY63952341
	person:-	: Bowness Family
	person:-	: Bowness, William
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	incumbents:-	Beck, Nathaniel 1663 Wayte, Robert 1668 Wright, Christopher 1687 1692 Breeks, JohnHanson, James Sommers, Joseph 1724 Hudson, Daniel 1728 Castley, Thomas 1729 Alderson, George 1731 Smith, Thomas 1739 Blamire, Thomas Kilner, William 1748 Stokoe, Hugh 1753 Tickel, Joseph 1754 Earl, John 1758 Kilner, Thomas 1768 Walton, John Rumney, William 1776 Jackson, John 1795 Jackson, Edward 1799 Shepherd, William 1834 Hughes, William Henry 1872 Dobson, John 1873 Dowding, Charles 1876 Stoate, William Morgan 1878 Pinnington, Philip 1880 Burn, Robert 1891 Suttie, John Trail 1895
	old print:-	Calverley 1899
		Notes on the Early Sulptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, edited by W G Collingwood, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1899.
		North side of the church:-
		Sketch by W G Collingwood.
		There is an iscription nearby:-
	date:-	1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	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
		photographs
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- Painted board:- -- 'William Bowness by his Will bearing Date Feb 9th 1709 Charged a Close in Colbyfield Call'd Butlershorn with an Annual rent of Ten shillings to be Distributed upon his Tomb Stone to the poor of Bolton by the Churchwardens & Overseeres with the Approbation of the heir or Cheif of his family on the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle yearly for ever.' -- 30.5.2006
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- Coat of arms, Victoria. -- 30.5.2006
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- Capital of the door arch. -- 3.8.2009
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- Coat of arms, stained glass. -- 30.5.2006
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- Chest. -- 3.8.2009
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- The screen. -- 3.8.2009
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- Poor box:- -- '16 34 / THE POUR MANS / BOX / IL RC' -- 3.8.2009
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- 3.8.2009
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- Effigy of a lady, perhaps taken off a 12th century tomb. -- 30.5.2006
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- Carved sandstone plaque on the north wall, knights jousting. They are wearing mail and pointed helmets, and carry kite shape shields and lances of late 12th century pattern. -- 30.5.2006
		All Saints Church -- Bolton -- Bolton -- Cumbria / -- Weathered inscription. -- 3.8.2009
	hearsay	An inscription by the jousting knights:- St Lawrence de Vere gives to the men of Bolton ... The rest is lost.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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