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	placename:-	Holy Trinity Church
	other name:-	Casterton Church
	locality:-	Casterton
	parish	Casterton parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		church
	coordinates:-	SD62457967
	10Km square:-	SD67
	References	: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5
	1Km square	SD6279
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- 1.12.2006
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- 7.2.2009
	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.
		CASTERTON
	site name:-	Kirkby Lonsdale Rural Deanery
	site name:-	Archdeaconry of Westmorland
	site name:-	Diocese of Carlisle
	date:-	1939
	period:-	1930s
	old print:-	Johnson c1900
		Guide book, The Gossiping Guide to Kirkby Lonsdale, printed by Thomas Johnson, 30 Church Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, about 1900.
		Print, halftone, Casterton Church, Holy Trinity Church, Westmorland, from a photograph by Bourne, published by Thomas Johnson, 30 Church Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, about 1900.
		Opposite p.8 in The Gossiping Guide to Kirkby Lonsdale.
		printed at lower right:-
		BOURNE
	date:-	1900
	period:-	1900s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY / / / CASTERTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75616 / SD6246079687
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Church. 1831-3, chancel c1860, by Crowther. Rock-faced limestone with ashlar dressings, chancel of rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Nave with west tower; chancel with north organ loft. 6-bay nave has gabled south porch and small gabled vestry opposite. Wide eaves and verges, scrolly gutter brackets. Weathered buttresses alternate with lancet windows with continuous hoodmould; diagonal buttresses. Porch has pointed arch. Tower has diagonal buttresses, chamfered angles to bell stage; which has louvred pointed bell openings with hoodmoulds, cornice and ashlar parapet with raised angles. West face has window with 4-centred head and label mould, with triangular-headed window above, and clock face below bell opening. Vestry has east entrance and north window. Chancel has weathered base and sill course; steep roof with coped gable with cross. 3 stepped lancets to east end have hoodmoulds. South side has trefoil-headed entrance and 3 lancets; north side has lancet to east of gabled organ loft with weathered buttress and coped gable. Interior: Nave has scissor truss roof with collars and kingposts. Wall paintings by J. CLarke c1905-10, painted on canvas. 2 wall memorials with gothic detail; Rev W. Carus Wilson (1859) and W.W. Carus Wilson (1851). Windows have plain irregular glass in abstract patterns, but west windows have glass by H. Holiday 1894-7. Tower arch to baptistry; octagonal font on clustered shafts, wall tablets with gothic detail and window by Shrigley and Hunt. Hanoverian arms in relief over entrance. Chancel arch has corbelled trefoil shafts; arch to left has screen with open tracery and iron grille to arch. Chancel has collar rafter roof, reredos has blind tracery and relief panel, communion rail with wrought iron diaper work, timber pulpit, lectern and stalls with pierced tracery panels; most fittings probably by Paley and Austin. Wall paintings and stained glass by H. Holiday, 1894-7. Founded by Rev William Carus Wilson, who also founded the Clergy Daughters' School, attended by Charlotte Bronte (when it was at Cowan Bridge), and who is believed to be the model for a character in Jane Eyre.
	placename:-	Church of Holy Trinity
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	SD62467968
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	source:-	Dove 2009
	diocese:-	Carlisle Diocese
	coordinates:-	SD625797
	coordinates:-	54d 12.7m N 2d 34.6m W
	locality:-	Casterton
		photographs
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- The chiming frame for the six bells. -- 1.7.2009
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- Notice about the bells. -- 1.7.2009
	Dove data	number of bells: 3 weight of tenor: 5 cwt 0 qtr 3 lb (563lbs) Unringable; a chime of 6, only 1-3 are hung for ringing. Bells 1-3 cast by Charles and George Mears, 1845; 4-6 by Mears and Stainbank, 1907. Dove 2009
		Data courtesy of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers
		photographs
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- 1.12.2006
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- Organ. -- 1.7.2009
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- One of the wall paintings. -- 1.12.2006
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- Stained glass panel. -- 1.12.2006
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- Stained glass panel. -- 1.12.2006
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- Stained glass panel. -- 1.12.2006
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- Coat of arms, George -- 1.12.2006
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- Poor box. -- 1.7.2009
		Holy Trinity Church -- Casterton -- Casterton -- Cumbria / -- Poor box. -- 1.7.2009
	hearsay	Built 1833. The church was 'for the school and the community' and was founded by Rev William Carus-Wilson, who also founded the Clergy Daughters' School, which is now Casterton School. The wall paintings were paid for by Canon A D Burton, the Misses Bickersteth of Casterton Hall, and public subscription, 1900s. The chief artists were Henry Holiday and James Clark. The stained glass is by Henry Holiday, Hampstead, London, probably painted by William Glasby, 1910s, commemorating World War I.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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