Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	St Bega's Church
	other name:-	Bassenthwaite Church
	parish	Bassenthwaite parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		church
	coordinates:-	NY22652875
	10Km square:-	NY22
		The church is sited by an old road along the shore of Bassenthwaite Lake, on the segment between Little Crosthwaite and Bowness Farm.
	References	: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5
	1Km square	NY2228
		St Bega's Church -- Bassenthwaite -- Cumbria / -- 20.1.2006
		St Bega's Church -- Bassenthwaite -- Cumbria / -- 20.1.2006
	old map:-	Nurse 1918 -- perhaps relevant
		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.
		BASSENTHWAITE ST. BRIDGET WITH B. ST. JOHN
	placename:-	St Bridget's Church
	site name:-	Keswick Rural Deanery
	site name:-	Archdeaconry of Westmorland
	site name:-	Diocese of Carlisle
	date:-	1939
	period:-	1930s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		cross, a church
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	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.
		Bassenthwaite
		Labelling the church by the lake.
	placename:-	Bassenthwaite
	county:-	Westmoreland
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	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 87:-
		... the church, which is old and was built about 1471, on the margin of the lake, not far from the promontories of Bradness and Scarness. ...
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old map:-	Clarke 1787 map (Bassenthwaite Lake)
		Map series, lakes and roads to the Lakes, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, London, included in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, published by James Clarke, Penrith, and in London etc, from 1787 to 1793.
		Church
		church
	date:-	1787
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Bas)
		Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794.
		Bassenthwaite Church
		Marked by a cross (x), by the lake.
	placename:-	Bassenthwaite Church
		church
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		CHURCH OF ST BEGA / / / BASSENTHWAITE / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 72100 / NY2266228748
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Parish church. C12 and C13, with restoration of 1874 by Messrs S. Watson of Penrith. Dressed calciferous sandstone, the larger blocks medieval, with angle buttresses and flush quoins of pink sandstone. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finials. 2-bay nave with south aisle and vestry, west open bellcote; single-bay chancel with south chapel continuous with aisles and vestry. Nave has C19 north round-headed doorway within stone porch. C19 2-light north window and double-lancet west window under round plate-tracery window. South aisle has paired lancet windows; vestry shouldered windows. Chancel has blocked north doorway and window with 2 cusped lights. C19 3-light east window and chapel with C19 lancets. Interior of nave has C19 open timber roof and single pointed aisle archway. Unmoulded chancel arch on simple imposts. South door now leads to vestry, near which is a medieval graveslab to Robert Highmore and wall plaque to Mary Wane of Scarness 1741. Royal arms of George II and recut octagonal font. Wrought-iron hourglass stand beside chancel arch. Chancel has side chapel archway similar to aisle. Floor paving includes medieval graveslab to a Highmore. Wall plaque to Walter Vane, 1814 by Paul Nixson of Carlisle. Stained glass east window and aisle windows of 1874 by Powell Bros of Leeds. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, 1xvi, pp 276-292.
	placename:-	Church of St Bega
	district:-	Allerdale
		listed building
	coordinates:-	NY22662874
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	incumbents:-	Fisher, Robert 1578 (about) Fisher, Henry 1579 (about) Parker, Thomas 1592 (about) Simson, Nicolas 1606 (about) Pearson, Simon 1606=1616 (about) Hewetson, Robert 1649 (about) Forward, John 1655 (about) Ardrey, William 1655=1680 (about) Pearson, John 1680=1686 Todd, John 1687=1705 Railton, James 1705=1707 Gregory, Peter 1708=1719 Grave, Stephen 1719=1763 Sim, Joseph 1763=1793 Wheelwright, Michael 1793=1801 Brown, John 1801=1822 Roy, Thomas 1822=1835 Barnes, John 1835=1853 Webster, Edward Bullock 1853=1855 Simpson, Thomas Browne 1855=1856 Sherlock, John Russell 1856=1868 Raby, John 1868=1895 Kenworthy, George 1895=1916
		photographs
		St Bega's Church -- Bassenthwaite -- Cumbria / -- 9.8.2011
		photographs
		cross slab grave cover, in passage to vestry. Now moved to beside the altar.
		St Bega's Church -- Bassenthwaite -- Cumbria / -- Gravestone of Robert de Highmoor:- -- '[HIC JACET ROBERTUS DE HEHMUR CUJUS ANIME PROPICIETOR DEUS]' -- 9.8.2011
	notes	cross slab grave cover, in passage to vestry. Now moved to beside the altar. Ryder, Peter: 2001: Cross Slab Grave Covers of Cumbria: Cumbria CC (Carlisle, Cumbria)
	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
		St Bega's Church -- Bassenthwaite -- Cumbria / -- 20.1.2006
		St Bega's Church -- Bassenthwaite -- Cumbria / -- Holder for an hour glass. -- 20.1.2006
		St Bega's Church -- Bassenthwaite -- Cumbria / -- Royal coat of arms. -- 20.1.2006
		St Bega's Church -- Bassenthwaite -- Cumbria / -- Parish chest? -- 9.8.2011
		St Bega's Church -- Bassenthwaite -- Cumbria / -- Memorial to Captain Walter Vane, 1st Regiment of Foot, killed at the Battle of Bayonne, during the Napoleonic Wars, and buried there, 1814. Erected by his father Sir Frederick Fletcher Vane. -- 20.1.2006
		St Bega's Church -- Bassenthwaite -- Cumbria / -- 13.2.2008
		St Bega's Church -- Bassenthwaite -- Cumbria / -- 17.12.2008
		St Bega's Church -- Bassenthwaite -- Cumbria / -- Stile over the churchyard wall, next the gate. -- 17.12.2008
	hearsay	A lead crucifix, about 12 inches high, was found when the priest's door on the north wall of the church was filled in, 1874. This is in the treasury at Carlisle Cathedral. It probably dates from the 14th century.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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