Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Kentmere Hall
	locality:-	Kentmere
	parish	Kentmere parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s
	coordinates:-	NY45120423
	10Km square:-	NY40
	1Km square	NY4504
		Kentmere Hall -- Kentmere -- Kentmere -- Cumbria / -- 4.6.2006
		Kentmere Hall -- Kentmere -- Kentmere -- Cumbria / -- 17.10.2008
	source:-	Martineau 1855
		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 175:-
		... Kentmere Hall,- the birthplace of Bernard Gilpin, in 1517. ...
	person:-	: Gilpin, Bernard
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	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 139:-
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		... Kentmere Hall, an ancient tower, that unwearied apostle of the north, and sincere confessor of the gospel, Bernard Gilpin, some time rector of Houghton-le-Spring, in Durham, was born. ...
		Page 159:-
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		[Kentmere Tarn] ... Near it stands the ancient Hall, a tower building.
	placename:-	Kentmere Hall
	person:-	: Gilpin, Bernard
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	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 153:-
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		At Kentmere was settled from the reign of John the antient family of Gilpin, from whom descended the pious Bernard, rector of Houghton le Spring, born here about 1517. Their antient hall still remains with a tower.
	placename:-	Kentmere Hall
	person:-	: Gilpin Family
	person:-	clergyman : Gilpin, Bernard
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		KENTMERE HALL AND ATTACHED BARN / / / KENTMERE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76478 / NY4510004236
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Tower House and attached farmhouse and barn with hayloft over shippon. Tower house C14; farmhouse probably late C14 or early C15 with later alterations and kitchen extension to rear; barn probably C18 alteration of earlier wing. Rubble walls, house rendered, graduated greenslate roofs; single ridge chimney stack to house. Tower has C20 flat roof replacing original pitched roof but was originally 4 storeys including vaulted ground floor. House 2 storeys. Tower has slit openings with flat heads; inserted medieval window in south wall of 2 trefoiled ogee lights in square head with moulded label and blank panel over. House has C20 windows and doors, one of which retains original stone surround; passage doorway has pointed head and continuous chamfered jamb; small window with stone mullions to rear. Interior of Tower has garderobe projection to North West corner; spiral staircase and blocked doorway (probably original entrance) in North East corner. See also R.C.H.M. P.130.
	placename:-	Kentmere Hall
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building -- barn
	coordinates:-	NY45100423
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		SHIPPON & HAYBARN ADJOINING SOUTH EAST CORNER KENTMERE HALL / / / KENTMERE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76479 / NY4512404234
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Shippon with haybarn and threshing floor over. Probably C19. Stone rubble walls with through stones and continuous drip over ground floor openings. Graduated greenslate roof. Stone ridge. 4 boarded doors to ground floor, similar door above all with stone voussoirs to openings. Listed for group value.
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building -- barn
	coordinates:-	NY45120423
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	hearth tax returns:-	Hearth Tax 1675
		Kentmere hall
		in
		Kentmere
	placename:-	Kentmere hall
	date:-	1675
	period:-	17th century, late; 1670s
		photographs
		Kentmere Hall -- Kentmere -- Kentmere -- Cumbria / -- 3.2.2010
	hearsay	Home of the Gilpin Family. It is said that king John awarded the hall to Richard Gilpin for killing a ferocious wild boar - the 'last wild boar in England', about 1325. William Gilpin was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field, 1485. Bernard Gilpin, born here 1517, was an influential churchman, involved in the Reformation, known as the Apostle of the North. He was sent to the Tower to be executed, but on the journey his horse fell and he broke a leg. The delay saved his life, Mary died and Elizabeth reinstated him as Archdeacon at Durham.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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