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placename:- St Catherine's Church
locality:- Crook
parish Crook parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
church; tower
coordinates:- SD45009467
10Km square:- SD49

1Km square SD4594

photograph

St Catherine's Church -- Crook -- Crook -- Cumbria / -- 26.4.2008
photograph

St Catherine's Church -- Crook -- Crook -- Cumbria / -- (and rain drops) -- 26.4.2008

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.
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St. Katherines
circle, tower

placename:- St Katherines
date:- 1760
period:- 18th century, late; 1760s

old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd)

Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
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S Katherines
Circle.

placename:- St Katherines
county:- Westmorland
date:- 1695
period:- 17th century, late; 1690s

old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd)

Maps, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, London, 1611; published 1611-1770.
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S. Katherines
circle

placename:- S. Katherines
date:- 1611
period:- 17th century, early; 1610s

old map:- Saxton 1576

Map, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576; published 1579-1645.
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Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus.
Sct Katerens

placename:- St Katerens
county:- Westmorelandia
hamlet
date:- 1576
period:- 16th century, late; 1570s

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
TOWER OF OLD PARISH CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE / / / CROOK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76395 / SD4498294659
courtesy of English Heritage
Church Tower, said to have been built in 1620. The remainder of the church was pulled down in 1887. Rubble walls, plain parapet. Partly blocked segmental arch and blocked doorway with segmental head on ground floor; 2 slit lights to 2nd floor; plain rectangular openings with stone louvres to belfry. RCHM page 72. Ancient Monument No. 108.
district:- South Lakeland
listed building
coordinates:- SD44989465
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

photographs
tiny photograph, 
button to large St Catherine's Church -- Crook -- Crook -- Cumbria / -- From the new church. -- 27.1.2012
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button to large St Catherine's Church -- Crook -- Crook -- Cumbria / -- Late winter afternoon. -- 31.12.2005
tiny photograph, 
button to large St Catherine's Church -- Crook -- Crook -- Cumbria / -- Deatil from a hainging at St Catherin's Church, Crook. -- 27.1.2012

hearsay The tower was built about 1620, on the old church which dated from about 1516. The body of old church had to be demolished in 1887, but the tower was kept. It was restored in 1993.

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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