Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Holy Trinity Church
	other name:-	Howgill Church
	locality:-	Howgill
	parish	Sedbergh parish, once in Yorkshire
	county:-	Cumbria
		church
	coordinates:-	SD63369503
	10Km square:-	SD69
	1Km square	SD6395
		Holy Trinity Church -- Howgill -- Sedbergh -- Cumbria / -- 16.3.2010
		Holy Trinity Church -- Howgill -- Sedbergh -- Cumbria / -- 23.9.2005
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		Howgill Chap.
	placename:-	Howgill Chapel
	county:-	Yorkshire
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		Howgill Ch.
		circle, tower
	placename:-	Howgill Chapel
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	old print:-	Thompson 1894
		Guide book, An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson, Sedbergh, published by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894.
		Print, engraving, Howgill Chapel, Howgill, Sedbergh, Yorkshire, published by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894.
		On p.83 of An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson.
	placename:-	Howgill Chapel
	date:-	1894
	period:-	19th century, late
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY / / HOWGILL LANE / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484575 / SD6337095035
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Church. 1838, by Edmund Sharpe. Mixed random rubble with sandstone dressings and graduated slate roof. Small building in simple Early English style. Nave with short chancel. The gabled 3-window west front, symmetrical, with narrow diagonal buttresses, has a 2-centred arched doorway with chamfered surround, hoodmould and double doors, a lancet window each side and another over the doorway, and gable bellcote. The 6-window north and south sides each have one buttress between the 1st and 2nd windows, and tall lancet windows with chamfered reveals, diamond leaded glazing and hoodmoulds. The chancel, which is slightly lower, has one similar window in each side and a stepped triple-lancet east window.
		INTERIOR: west gallery over internal porch; box pews; panelled font in Early English style. Very picturesque site in valley beside beck.
	placename:-	Church of the Holy Trinity
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	SD63379503
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
		photographs
		Holy Trinity Church -- Howgill -- Sedbergh -- Cumbria / -- The bell. -- 16.3.2010
	incumbents:-	Chambers, Walter 1697 Holme, John 1744 Sanderson, Thomas 1746 Tomlinson, Robert 1747 Udal, Joseph 1759 Alderson, Christopher 1760 Metcalfe, Lister 1763 Mason, Edward 1765 Metcalf, John 1769 Browne, John 1770 Sedgwick, John 1773 Green, Isaac 1836 Powell, Edward 1875 Nixon, Louis 1891 Guy, Douglas S 1894 Whaley, Oswald 1905
		photographs
		Holy Trinity Church -- Howgill -- Sedbergh -- Cumbria / -- 23.9.2005
		Holy Trinity Church -- Howgill -- Sedbergh -- Cumbria / -- 10.9.2011
		Holy Trinity Church -- Howgill -- Sedbergh -- Cumbria / -- Church gate. -- 16.3.2010
		Holy Trinity Church -- Howgill -- Sedbergh -- Cumbria / -- Yews. -- 10.9.2011
		Holy Trinity Church -- Howgill -- Sedbergh -- Cumbria / -- Yew leaves. -- 10.9.2011
	hearsay	The chapelry became a parish in 1737. This church was built 1838, when the old chapel became a house, Brantyghyll, across the stream.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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