Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Holy Trinity Church | |
| other name:- | Seathwaite Church | |
| locality:- | Seathwaite | |
| parish |
Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite
parish, once in Lancashire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| church | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD22899613 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD29
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| References |
: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5
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| 1Km square | SD2296 | |
 Holy Trinity Church -- Seathwaite -- Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite -- Cumbria / -- 17.11.2005 | ||
 Holy Trinity Church -- Seathwaite -- Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite -- Cumbria / -- 17.11.2005 | ||
| old map:- |
Nurse 1918
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| 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. | ||
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| SEATHWAITE | ||
| site name:- | Gosforth Rural Deanery | |
| site name:- | Archdeaconry of Furness | |
| site name:- | Diocese of Carlisle | |
| date:- | 1939 | |
| period:- | 1930s | |
| source:- |
Martineau 1855
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| Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-71. | ||
| Page 109:- | ||
| Newfield Church, in Seathwaite, is the place where Robert Walker, called "the Wonderful," exercised his office for sixty years. ... The church is little loftier or larger than the houses near, But for the bell, the traveller would hardly | ||
| Page 110:- | ||
| have noticed it for a church on approaching: but when he has reached it, there is the porch, and the little graveyard, with a few tombs, and the spreading yew, encircled by the seat of stones and turf where the early comers sit and rest till the bell calls them in. A little dial, on a whitened post in the middle of the enclosure, tells the time to the neighbours who have no clocks. ... There are changes even here. ... there is a decline in the number of attendants at church. The Wesleyan | ||
| Page 111:- | ||
| chapel at Ulpha has drawn away some; and the taste for Sunday diversion, which has found its way over the hills from Coniston, estranges more; and the descendant and successor of the good pastor says that "the old stocks are gone, and the new families are different." Thus is the large world's experience reflected in this little vale! | ||
| person:- | clergyman : Walker, Robert; Wonderful Walker, The | |
| date:- | 1855 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY / / / DUNNERDALE WITH SEATHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75855 / SD2290496137 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Church. 1874. Money given by H.W. Schneider. Coursed slate rubble with slate roof. Single vessel nave and chancel with north organ loft and vestry. South elevation has 4 plain unchamfered lancet windows, with wide buttress between nave and chancel. Gabled porch has pointed arch and angle buttresses; flat rough stone attached, now with sundial, used at one time as shearing stool by Rev Robert Walker, for 67 years curate, made famous by Wordsworth as 'Wonderful Walker'. North elevation has 3 lancets to nave, gabled organ loft and flat-roofed vestry with coping. West end has 2 lancets and gabled outhouse with pointed entrance and gabled bellcote. East end has 3 stepped lancets, vestry entrance and leaded casement. Interior is simple, scissor rafter roof with ashlaring, double-chamfered chancel arch. Georgian royal arms. Holy water stoup set in wall. Chancel has arch to organ loft and ten commandments painted on wall; some stained glass. Brass plate re-set from grave stone, records Rev R. Walker (died 1802) and his wife , Anne (died 1800). | ||
| placename:- | Church of Holy Trinity | |
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD22909613 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| photocopy |
Harper 1901:-
series 2 vol.2 p.304 | |
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series 2 vol.2 p.305
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series 2 vol.2 p.306
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Gaythorpe, Harper: 1901: Church Bells in the Archdeaconry
of Furness; Colton, Kirkby Ireleth, Broughton, Woodland, and
Seathwaite: TransCWAAS: series 2 vol.2: pp.282-306
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| photographs | ||
| Holy Trinity Church -- Seathwaite -- Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite -- Cumbria / -- 24.9.2010 | |
| photographs | ||
| Holy Trinity Church -- Seathwaite -- Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite -- Cumbria / -- Organ by Alexander Young and Sons, Manchester, 1902. -- 29.5.2009 | |
| Holy Trinity Church -- Seathwaite -- Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite -- Cumbria / -- Organ, makers plate:- -- 'ALEX. YOUNG & SONS, / ORGAN BUILDERS, / MANCHESTER. / 1902.' -- 29.5.2009 | |
| Holy Trinity Church -- Seathwaite -- Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite -- Cumbria / -- Inscribed slate:- -- 'A.D. 1756 & A.D. 1757 / This C. of SEATHWAITE was augmd. / And A.D. 1760 Lands purchasd. with L800 / Whereof Given by / QN. ANNE'S Bounty ... 400 / By Execrs. of WM. STRATFORD L.L.D. ... 200 / By other Benefrs. ... 200' -- 29.5.2009 | |
| Holy Trinity Church -- Seathwaite -- Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite -- Cumbria / -- 'THIS STONE WAS USED AT GATESKELL FARM ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE 18TH CENTURY, AS A STOOL FOR CLIPPING SHEEP BY THE REV. ROBERT WALKER VICAR OF THE PARISH OF SEATHWAITE, REVERED BY THE TITLE OF THE 'WONDERFUL WALKER'.' -- 17.11.2005 | |
| Holy Trinity Church -- Seathwaite -- Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite -- Cumbria / -- Memorial brass:- -- 'IN Memory OF The Revd. ROBERT WALKER who Died the 25th. June 1802 In the 93d. Year of his Age AND 67th Year of his Curacy at SEATHWAITE. ...' -- 17.11.2005 | |
| Holy Trinity Church -- Seathwaite -- Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite -- Cumbria / -- Gravestone:- -- 'IN Memory OF / The Revd. ROBERT WALKER / ...' -- 29.5.2009 | |
| photographs | ||
| Holy Trinity Church -- Seathwaite -- Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite -- Cumbria / -- 24.9.2010 -- 'THE OLD SEATHWAITE CHAPEL' | |
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: 1939 (2 September): News, The
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| hearsay |
Robert Walker, born here about 1709, took the living of
Seathwaite in 1735. He was described by Thomas Ellwood in
Seathwaite and the Wonderful Walker:-
In the mornings before school time, and in the evenings he laboured in manual occupations; during the day he taught school. He publicly catechised the children, and performed the whole duty, morning and afternoon on Sunday. In summer he rose between three and four o'clock and went to the field with his scythe and his rake, and in harvest time with his sickle. He ploughed; he planted; he went on the mountains after the sheep; he sheered and salved them; he dug peat - all for hire. -- He was an excellent spinner of linen and cotton thread. All his own clothes and afterwards those of his family were of his own spinning. He knit and mended his own stockings, and made his own shoes. In his walks he never neglected to gather the wood from the hedges and bring it home. He was also the physician and lawyer of the place; he drew up all wills, conveyances, bonds, &c., wrote all letters and settled all accounts. These labours (at all times considerable) at one period of the year, viz., between Christmas and Candlemas, when many transactions are settled in this country, were so intense that he passed a great part of the night, and sometimes whole nights, at his desk. He died June 1802 in his 93rd year. | |
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