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	placename:-	Cartmel Priory
	other name:-	Cartmel Priory Church
	other name:-	St Mary and St Michael's Church
	locality:-	Cartmel
	parish	Lower Allithwaite parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		church
	coordinates:-	SD37977877
	10Km square:-	SD37
	References	: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

	1Km square	SD3778

		Built 1190-1440.
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- 7.4.2006
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- 30.7.2010

	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.

		CARTMEL
	site name:-	Cartmel Rural Deanery
	site name:-	Archdeaconry of Furness
	site name:-	Diocese of Carlisle
	date:-	1939
	period:-	1930s

	old map:-	OS County Series (Lan 17 3)
		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.

	placename:-	Priory
		religious house
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s

	source:-	Philip/Wilson 1890s

		CARTMEL CHURCH.
	date:-	1895
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s

	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 3:-
		...
		[Cartmel] ... the church, dedicated to St. Mary, an ancient and handsome structure, formerly a priory, and containing several fine monuments. ...
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s

	descriptive text:-	Baker 1802
		Perspective road map with sections in Lancashire, Westmorland, and Cumberland through Kendal and Penrith ending at Carlisle, by J Baker, London 1802.
		pp.25-26:-
		... Cartmel abbey, ... was once a priory of the order of St. Austin, dedicated to the virgin Mary, and founded by William Marechal, Earl of Pembroke. ...

	placename:-	Cartmel Abbey
	person:-	: Marechal, William; Pembroke, Earl of
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s

	old text:-	Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)
		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.
		Page 142:-
		...
		Cartmell was a priory of Austin canons, founded 1188, valued at £.91.. The gate still remains. The large and handsome church was purchased by the parishioners at the dissolution; the choir adorned with curious carving of the passion, by George Preston of this place 1640, who repaired in the antient style.

	placename:-	Cartmell Priory
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s

	descriptive text:-	West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
		Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
		goto source.
		Page 30:-
		... Eau [1], or river of the sands, a guide on horseback called the carter, is in waiting to conduct passengers over the ford [Kent or Eau on Lancaster Sands]. The prior of Cart-
		[1] Pronounced commonly Eea.
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		Page 31:-
		[Cart]mel was charged with this important office, and synodals and peter-pence allowed towards its maintenance. Since the dissolution of the priory, it is held by patent of the duchy of Lancaster, and the salary, twenty pounds per annum, is paid by the receiver-general.
		...
		... The only thing worthy of notice in Cartmel is the Church, a hand-
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		Page 32:-
		[hand]some Gothic edifice. The large east window [1] is finely ribbed with pointed arches, light and elegant; but the painted glass is almost destroyed. The preservation of this edifice reflects honour on the memory of George Preston, Esq. of Holker, who, at his own expense, new-roofed the whole, and decorated the inside with a stucco cieling (sic). The choir and chancel he also repaired, suiting the new parts to the old remains of the canons' seats, and thereby giving them their ancient uniform appearance. Persons uninformed of this, always take it to be the same as it was before the dissolution. The style of the building, like most of its contemporaries, is irregular. The form is a cross, in length 157 feet; the transept 110 feet; the height of the walls 57 feet. The tower on the centre is of a singular construction, being a square within a square, the higher set at cross angles with the lower. This gives it an odd appearance on all sides, but may have some reference to the octagonal pillars in the church, and both to the memory of something now forgotten. According to some accounts, it was built and endowed with the manor of Cartmel, by William Marischal the elder, Earl of Pembroke, in 1188, but as in the foundation deed mention is made of Henry II,- Richard,- and
		[1] The dimensions are 24 feet wide and 48 high. The great east window of York-minster measures 32 by 75 feet.
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		Page 33:-
		Henry the younger, his lord the King, it appears rather to have been founded in the beginning of that reign; for William the elder, Earl of Pembroke, died in the fourth or fifth year of the reign of Henry III. He gave it, never to be erected into an abbey, to the canons regular of St. Austin, reserving to himself and his heirs the right of granting them the conge[acute] d'lire of a prior, who should be independent of all others. Under the north wall, a little below the altar, is the tomb-stone of William de Walton, prior of Cartmel. He is mentioned in the confirmation diploma of Edward II, and must have been one of the first priors. Opposite to this is a magnificent tomb of a Harrington and his lady, which Mr. Pennant thinks may be of Sir John Harrington, who, in 1305, was summoned by Edward I, 'with numbers of other gallant gentlemen, to meet him at Carlisle, and attend him on his expedition in to Scotland.' But it agrees better with a John de Harrington, called John of Cartmel, or his son, of Wrasholme-tower, in Cartmel, as Sir Daniel Fleming's account of that family has it, M.S.L.A. 1.132. The head of the Harrington family, Sir John Harrington, in the reign of Edward I, was of Aldingham, and lived at Gleaston-castle, in Furness, and died in an advanced age, in 1347; and is more probably the Sir John
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		Page 34:-
		Harrington mentioned in Dugdale's baronage, and said, as above, to be summoned by Edward I. There is not one vestige of the monastry (sic) remaining. There is indeed an ancient gate-house, but whether this was connected with the cloisters or not, tradition is silent, and its distance from the church is unfavorable to the conjecture.
	person:-	: Carter, The
	person:-	: Preston, George
	person:-	: Marischal, William; Pembroke, Earl of
	person:-	: Henry II
	person:-	: Richard
	person:-	: Austin FRiars
	person:-	: Walton, William de
	person:-	: Harrington, John, Sir
	person:-	: Pennant, Thomas
	date:-	1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s

	map:-	see:- : 1954: Monastic Britain: Ordnance Survey
		canons regular
	person:-	: Augustinian Order

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		CARTMEL PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / I / 76955 / SD3797478799
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Former Priory Church. Chancel, Piper choir, transepts, 1190-1220; Town choir c1330; nave and aisles, tower and tracery (except Town choir) 1395-1420; south porch c1613; vestry 1677. Ashlar; nave dressed stone and rubble; slate roofs. 3-bay nave has embattled parapet and recessed gable; 5-light west window with flanking deep buttresses and area wall. 2-light straight-headed clerestory windows. Aisles have 3-light west windows; south aisle has 2 windows of 3 lights and truncated buttresses, part has moulded base; 2 entrances, one with traceried door, the other in gabled porch is round-headed, of 3 orders, c1190. North aisle has traces of north cloister; early C13 entrance of 2 orders. Transepts have flat buttresses, that to north has 2 blocked north lancets, one cut by blocked entrance; upper 5-light window; lancet to west, 4-light window to east. South transept similar; parapet and recessed gable; 4-light south window with 5-light window above; good attached memorials; signs of cloister to west. Crossing tower has embattled parapet and diagonal upper stage with 4-light windows and parapet. 3-bay chancel has moulded base and flat buttresses flanking very large 9-light window; 2-light traceried straight-headed clerestory windows. Piper choir to north of 2 bays, flat buttresses, corbel table and 3-light windows; vestry to east has 3-light segmental-headed window. Town choir to south has 3-light windows, buttresses and 5-light east window with 2 blocked lights. Interior: 3-bay plain nave arcades. Crossing arches have clustered shafts to piers, choir has 2-bay round-headed arcades and continuous arcading to triforium. C17 collar rafter roofs, but quadripartite vault to Piper choir and- Cl9 roofs to crossing and Town choir. C15 stalls with good misericords; early cl7 canopies and screens. Harrington tomb, originally free standing, now in arch on south side of chancel; cutting sedilia, c1347, 2 recumbent effigies, arcading and figures, painted ceiling. Many other memorials of interest. Medieval grave slabs in Piper choir and chancel, recumbent effigy of canon c1340 in Town choir, slab to Prior William c1292 in chancel. Dame Katherine Lowther (died 1700) and Sir Thomas Lowther (died 1745), wall memorials in Town choir; other wall memorials in south transept are of interest. Many C17 and C18 grave slabs in floor. Lord Frederick Cavendish (died 1881) by T Woolner, marble effigy on alabaster tomb chest. Preston Family, 1646, painted board. C19 pulpit and font, also C17 font with cover dated 1645. Stained glass, early C15, some figures to east window, Town choir and porch. An important survival of a medieval monastic church, the Harrington Tomb and choir screen and canopies are works of major importance. See V.C.H., Vol.8, p254 ff; Pevsner, BoE: North Lancs:> pp86-90; J.C. Dickinson, The Land of Cartmel, p16 ff.

	placename:-	Cartmel Priory Church
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	SD37977879
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		FRYERS, THOMPSON AND TURNER MONUMENTS APPROXIMATELY 22 METRES SOUTH OF PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76959 / SD3799178773
		courtesy of English Heritage
		3 chest tombs in group. Late C18. Ashlar. Thompson tomb has simple base, fluted pilaster strips to angles and centres of sides; incised ovals to sides and ends. Records William (died 1754), Judith (died 1764) and their children. Top cracked. To south, chest tomb has balusters to angles and incised lozenges to sides and end; top has hollow-chamfered edge and round relief design; now worn but probably an armorial bearing. Records James Fryers (died 1753). To west of Thompson tomb a chest tomb, simple base, fluted pilaster strips to angles and centre of sides, rectangular fielded panels to sides and ends. Top has hollow-chamfered edge. Records Edward (mariner) and Elizabeth Turner and their son Thomas.
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building -- gravestone
	coordinates:-	SD37997877
	person:-	: Fryers, James
	person:-	: Thompson, William
	person:-	: Thompson, Judith
	person:-	sailor : Turner, Edward
	person:-	: Turner, Elizabeth
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		DIXON MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76965 / SD3799178772
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Gravestone. 1788. Ashlar. Vertical slab with concave on upper angles. Records Rowland Dixon of Ingleton.
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	SD37997877
	person:-	: Dixon, Rowland
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		FLETCHER MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76960 / SD3799178766
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Chest tomb. 1752. Ashlar. Incised rectangles to sides and ovals to ends. Records Elizabeth Fletcher and her infant daughter. Inscription records its restoration by Henry Fletcher Rigg, 1875.
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	SD37997876
	person:-	: Fletcher, Elizabeth
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		GRAYSON MEMORIALS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76961 / SD3798278766
		courtesy of English Heritage
		2 chest tombs. Late C18. Ashlar. Both tombs have nook balusters to angles and tops with rounded edges and relief designs with skull and cross bones and winged hour glass. That to north records Robert, mariner (died 1739), Elizabeth (died 1749) and their children. That to south records Jane Grayson (died 1782) and Mary Bere (died 1793).
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building -- gravestone
	coordinates:-	SD37987876
	person:-	sailor : Grayson, Robert
	person:-	: Grayson, Elizabeth
	person:-	: Grayson, Jane
	person:-	: Bere, Mary
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		GOAD AND HALL MEMORIALS APPROXIMATELY 47.5 METRES SOUTH OF PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76966 / SD3797978771
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Chest tomb and gravestone. Late C18. Late C18. Ashlar and stone rubble. Chest tomb has balusters to angles and centres of sides; rubble infill. Records John Goad, mariner (died 1782) and Ann Goad (died 1758). To east, vertical slab with shaped top. Records Richard Hall (died 1789) and David Bayliff, stonemason (died 1836).
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building -- gravestone
	coordinates:-	SD37977877
	person:-	sailor : Goad, John
	person:-	: Goad, Ann
	person:-	: Hall, Richard
	person:-	stonemason : Bayliff, Richard
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		MAYCHELL MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 27.5 METRES SOUTH OF PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76962 / SD3797678770
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Table tomb. 1791. Ashlar. Slab has hollow chamfered edges and 4 short balusters. Records James Maychell.
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building -- gravestone
	coordinates:-	SD37977877
	person:-	: Maychell, James
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		LAMPPOST APPROXIMATELY 5.5 METRES TO NORTH OF PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76956 / SD3797378826
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Lamppost. Probably C19. Cast iron. Fluted column has cross arms and lantern, which has cylindrical top flue with cap; glazing replaced by reinforced plastic panels.
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building -- lamp post
	coordinates:-	SD37977882
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		REMAINS OF CROSS APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES SOUTH OF THE PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76967 / SD3797078727
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Cross base. Probably early C15. Stone. Octagonal base of 2 steps, the lower one chamfered, the upper one moulded. Part of cross shaft, octagonal with worn ornament to 4 sides. Top has sockets possibly for sundial.
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building -- cross
	coordinates:-	SD37977872
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		TAYLOR MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 29.5 METRES SOUTH OF PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76963 / SD3796878771
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Gravestone. 1786. Ashlar. Vertical slab with curved top. Records Rev William Taylor, fellow of Emmanuel College and master of Hawkshead School; his most famous pupil was William Wordsworth. The inscription concludes with a verse.
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building -- gravestone
	coordinates:-	SD37967877
	person:-	clergyman; teacher : Taylor, William
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		JACKSON MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 33.5 METRES SOUTH OF PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76964 / SD3796878762
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Chest tomb, Late C18. Ashlar. Plain chest. Top is damaged and records Ann Jackson, wife of Thomas, Master Mariner, died 1789, and her son William, died 1789. End panel records Elizabeth, died 1790.
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	SD37967876
	person:-	: Jackson Family
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		MUCHALL MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES SOUTH OF PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76957 / SD3796478786
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Gravestone. Late C18. Vertical slab has raised centre to top. Records John Muchall, mariner (died 1781) and others.

	other name:-	Muchall Memorial
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building -- gravestone
	coordinates:-	SD37967878
	person:-	sailor : Muchall, John
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		NEWBY MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES SOUTH OF PRIORY CHURCH / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76958 / SD3795878784
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Chest tomb. Late C18. Ashlar. Sides have incised lozenges. Top has rounded edges. Records James (died 1778), Elizabeth (died 1779) and their children.

	other name:-	Newby Memorial
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building -- gravestone
	coordinates:-	SD37957878
	person:-	: Newby Family
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s

	road book:-	Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
		Road book, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, published by G and J Cary, 86 St James's Street, London, 1798-1828.

		page 319-320
		At Cartmel is a handsome Gothic Church.
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s

	source:-	Dove 2009
	diocese:-	Carlisle Diocese
	coordinates:-	SD380788
	coordinates:-	54d 12.1m N 2d 57.1m W
	locality:-	Cartmel

	Dove data	number of bells: 6 weight of tenor: 11 cwt 1 qtr 24 lb (1284lbs) pitch of tenor: G scale:- G, A, B, C, D, E First 6 notes; intervals TTSTT; G major. Bells 1-2 cast by John Taylor and Co, 1932, 3-6 by Eijsbouts, 1987. There are 4 other bells (G,A,B,C) making an 'old' 6, the tenor 15cwt in G - old 3-4 cast by Evan and William Evans, Chepstow, 1726; old 5-6 by John Scott, Wigan, 1661 and 1665. Dove 2009
		Data courtesy of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers

		photographs
		courtesy of the tower captain.
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Preparing to ring for a wedding. -- 30.7.2010

		photographs
		courtesy of the tower captain.
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Trap door for the bells. -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Bellringing rules. -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Poem on ringing in the New Year, by Gordon Bottomley,1913.. -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Old bell frame. -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Changes on 4 bells. -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Changes on 4 bells, written out by W Fell, 1857. -- 30.7.2010

		photographs
		A little door in a transept wall, up steps into the walls, up a spiral stair, into the air, across a roof, into the tower.
		courtesy of the tower captain.
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Access to the ringing chamber 1. -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Access to the ringing chamber 2. -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Access to the ringing chamber 3. -- 30.7.2010

	references	Handley, Diana: 1983: Notes on Furness Branch Bells::: inscriptions and history

	notes	At The Dissolution the church had 'five discordant bells', of which one was left in the possession of the parishioners. One or more bells were cast or recast in 1599. A 'great bell' was cast by Thomas Stafford, Penrith, 1630. The present bells are described by Dove 2009. The timber bell frame, which was probably made 1661, was replaced by a steel and cast iron bell frame designed by Eayre and Smith, Derby, 1988. Rothwell, Eric, Rev Canon & Smith, R J L (ed): 2000 & 2005: Priory Church of S Mary and St Michael & Cartmel Priory, Cumbria:: ISBN 1 872665 48 9

		photographs
		The hatchment, with a black background, is for an unidentified bachelor. The coat of arms is Cavendish:-
		Note the supporters, two stags proper. Motto:-
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Coat of arms of the Cavendish Family; motto:- -- 7.4.2006

		photographs
		The hatchment, dexter backgound black, is for a married man; Sir Thomas Lowther, husband of Elizabeth daughter of William, Duke of Devonshire. The coat of arms of the Lowther Family:-
		impaling, those of the Cavendish Family:-
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Coats of arms of the Lowther and Cavendish Families. -- 30.7.2010

		photographs
		The hatchment is dexter background black for a married man, George Augustus Henry Cavendish, Earl of Burlington, husband of Elizabeth daughter of the Earl of Northampton. The arms of the Cavendish Family:-
		and of the Compton Family:-
		Motto:-
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Coat of arms of the Cavendish and Compton Families; motto:- -- 30.7.2010

		photographs
		The hatchment has an all black background, the arms on a lozenge, for spinster, either Catherine or Margaret Lowther, a sister of Sir Thomas Lowther. The arms of the Lowther Family
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Coat of arms of the Lowther Family; motto:- -- 30.7.2010

		photographs
		The hatchment has an all black background for an unidentified bachelor. The arms of the Cavendish Family:-
		Motto:-
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Coat of arms of the Family; motto:- -- 30.7.2010

	old print:-	Robertson 1911
		Wordsworthshire, by Eric Robertson, Windermere, Westmorland, illustrated by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.

		Print, lithograph? Cartmel Priory, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Tipped in opposite p.126 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson.
		printed at bottom:-
		CARTMEL PRIORY / (Taylor's grave, on extreme left)
		signed at painting lower left:-
		Arthur Tucker

	placename:-	Cartmel Priory
	date:-	1911
	period:-	1910s

	old print:-	Grose 1772-87
		Book, Supplement To The Antiquities Of England And Wales ... by Francis Grose, published by S Hooper, 212 High Holborn, London, 1777-87; maps by John Seller, 1694.

		Print, uncoloured engraving, Kertmele, or Cartmele Priory, Lower Allithwaite, Lancashire, by Samuel Hooper, engraved by Godfrey, published by Samuel Hooper, Ludgate Hill, London, 1775.
		Included in The Antiquities of England and Wales, by Francis Grose,.
		There is descriptive text below the print and on the reverse:-
		KERTMELE, OR CARTMELE, PRIORY, LANCASHIRE.
		THIS was a priory of regular canons, of the order of St. Augustine, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and founded A.D. 1188. by William Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke; who by his charter directed that it should for ever remain an independant priory; that it should never be raised to the dignity of an abbey; and that upon the death of the prior, the canons should present to him, or his successor, two of their convent, one of whom he was to nominate to the office of prior. Having settled these and some other particulars, he concludes in the following manner: "This house I have founded for the increase of our holy religion, giving and granting to it every kind of liberty the heart can conceive, or the mouth utter; and whosoever in any way infringe upon these their immunities, or injure the said monastery, may he incur the curse of God, of the blessed Virgin and all the saints, as well as my particular malediction."
		BY two different charters these canons were endowed by the above-named founder with all his lands of Kertmele, together with the church and its dependencies; likewise the church of Balisar, with the chapel of Balunadan and its appendages; also the town of Kiros in Ireland, with the advowson of its church, and all appurtenances.
		ADA de Winterthwaiter, Thomas de Kelilstal, and Elias, son of Goditha de Stavely, were benefactors to this house. The charters of the founder were confirmed by Edward 3d. but probably had been called in question in the reign of Henry 3d; for by the rolls of the 7th of that king, cited in Madox's History of the Exchequer, it appears, that the prior of Cartmele paid a fine of one Palfrey to have his charter and liberties amended.
		IN the 26th of Henry 8th, this priory was rated at 91l. 16s. 3d. per ann. Dugdale, 124l. 2s. 1d. Speed, 212l. 11s. 10d. second valuation. Here at the dissolution were reckoned ten religious and thirty-eight servants. The bells, lead, and goods were estimated at 274l. 13s. 9½d. The debts owing by the house amounted to 59l. 12s. 8d. Anno 1553, here remained in charge 2l. in fees. The site of the monastery was granted 38th Hen. 8th. to Thomas Holcroft. The church is now converted to parochial uses; the patron thereof Sir James Lowther.
		MR. PENNANT, in his Tour through Scotland, gives the following account of the present state of the remains of this convent:
		"THREE miles from the shore is Cartmel, a small town, with most irregular streets, lying in a vale, surrounded by high hills. The gateway of the monastery of regular canons of St. Austin, founded in 1188, by William Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, is still standing. But this had long been holy ground, having, about the year 677, been given to St. Cuthbert, by Elfrid, king of Northumberland, with all its inhabitants still British. The church is large, and in the form of a cross; the length is 157 feet: the transept 110: the height 57. The steeple is most singular, the tower being a square within a square; the upper part being set dragonally within the lower. The inside of the church is handsome and spacious: the centre supported by four large and fine clustered pillars: the west part more modern than the rest, and the pillars octagonal. The choir beautiful, surrounded with stalls, whose tops and pillars are finely carved with foliage, and with the instruments of the passion above.
		"ON one side is the tomb-stone of William de Walton, with a cross on it. He was either fist or second prior of this place. The inscription is only, Hic jacet Frater Wilelmus de Walton, Prior de Cartmel.
		"ON the other is a magnificent tomb of a Harrington and his lady, both lie recumbent beneath a fine carved and open work arch, decorated with variety of superstitious figures; and on the surbase are grotesque forms of chaunting monks. He lies with his legs across, a sign that he obtained that privilege by the merits of his pilgrimage. He is said to have been one of the Harringtons of Wrasholm Tower; his lady a Huddleston of Millam castle. It is probable that his is the effigies of Sir John de Harrington, who, in 1305, was summoned by Edward 1st, with numbers of other gallant gentlemen, to meet him at Carlisle, and attend him on his expedition into Scotland; and was then knighted, along with Prince Edward, with bathing, and other sacred ceremonies.
		"THE monument erected by Christopher Rawlinson, of Cark-Hall, in Cartmel, deserves mention, being in memory of his grand-father, father and mother; the last a Monk, desended from Thomas Monk of Devonshire, by Frances Plantagenet, daughter and co-heir of Arthur viscount Lisle, son of Edward 4th; and this Christopher dying without issue, was the last male by the mother side of that great line.
		"IN a side chapel is the burial place of the Lowthers, among other monuments is a neat, but small one of the late Sir William."
		This view was drawn anno 1772.
		printed at bottom left, centre, right, centre:-
		[Jan ] 20 1775 / Saml. Hooper ex. / Godfrey Sc / KERTMELE, OR CARTMELE PRIORY, LANCASHIRE. / ...

	placename:-	Kertmele Priory
	other name:-	Cartmele Priory
	date:-	1772
	period:-	18th century, late

	old print:-

		Print, uncoloured engraving, Cartmell Priory, Lancashire, Lower Allithwaite, drawn and engraved by John Coney, about 1845?
		printed at bottom:-
		Drawn & Engraved by John Coney / Cartmell Priory, Lancashire.

	placename:-	Cartmel Priory
	date:-	1845
	period:-	19th century, early

	old print:-

		Print, uncoloured engraving, Cartmel Church and Village, Lancashire, engraved by Andrew Scott, 1900s?
		On page 168 of Our Own Country. Churchyard scene.
		printed at bottom:-
		CARTMEL CHURCH AND VILLAGE.

	placename:-	Cartmel Church
	date:-	1900=1909
	period:-	1900s

	hearsay	The misericords were carved about 1430-40, commissioned by prior William, whose initial decorates the carving under his seat. There were 26 seats; 25 remain. S1, prior's seat - includes initial W in the supporters. S8 - mermaid, carrying a comb and a mirror N7 - hedghog

		photographs
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Misericord -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Misericord, a green man -- 30.7.2010

		photographs
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Misericord. -- 7.4.2006
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Misericord. -- 7.4.2006
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Misericord. -- 7.4.2006

	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
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- South porch door. -- 7.4.2006
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Stained glass in the porch. -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Stained glass in the porch. -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- God presenting the 10 Commandments, 17th century. -- 7.4.2006
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Organ pipes. -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Chair. -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Coat of arms, John Stockdale, d.1874; motto:- -- 'HIS VICIMUS ARMIS' -- 7.4.2006
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Effigy. -- 30.7.2010

		photographs
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- The choir. -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- The choir. -- 30.7.2010

		photographs
		There is a clock in the ringing chamber, not in use. Three legged gravity escapement, by T Cooke and Sons, York and London, 1865.
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- 30.7.2010
		Cartmel Priory -- Cartmel -- Lower Allithwaite -- Cumbria / -- Maker's name:- -- 'T COOKE & SONS. / 1865 / YORK & LONDON.' -- 30.7.2010

	hearsay	The new(ish) main door was made by a member of the Knipe Family of Allithwaite. His trademark is a carved snail.

	story	It is said: that the canons initially started to build on a nearby hill, but one of them had a sign from on high directing them to build between streams flowing opposite ways. After a lot of searching they realised that the Cartmel site suited, and proceded to build the priory there, on a base of peat without solid foundations.

	hearsay	Norman Nicholson, a Lakeland poet began a poem about the priory:- God's box of bricks ... but got no further than expressing that he thought it 'a huge child's castle of cubes'.

	references	Dickinson, J C: 1991: Priory of Cartmel

	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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