Old Cumbria Gazetteer, St Cuthbert, Great Salkeld

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placename:-

St Cuthbert's Church

other name:-

Great Salkeld Church

locality:-

Great Salkeld

parish

Great Salkeld parish, once in Cumberland

county:-

Cumbria

church

coordinates:-

NY55173675

10Km square:-

NY53

References

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

1Km square

NY5536

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- The church tower built 1380, is a fortifed tower, a pele tower. -- 26.8.2005

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- 26.8.2005

old map:-

Nurse 1918

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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GREAT SALKELD

site name:-

Kirkoswald Rural Deanery

site name:-

Archdeaconry of Carlisle

site name:-

Diocese of Carlisle

date:-

1939

period:-

1930s

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 191:-

...

The church of Great Salkeld seems to have been built at a different time from the steeple, and the latter seems of later erection, and intended for a secure hold or retreat for the rector: so the iron door below and the good cellar with several chimnies within persuade us to believe. Bishop Nicolson supposes it the work of archdeacon Close, brother of bishop Close, in the middle of the 5th century who lies buried under a blue stone robbed of its brass in the choir. ...

date:-

1789

period:-

18th century, late; 1780s

database:-

Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage

CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT / / / GREAT SALKELD / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 74243 / NY5516536764

courtesy of English Heritage

Parish church with fortified tower. Late C11 with c.1380 tower; c.1480 and 1674 alterations; 1866 and 1879 restorations. Large blocks of red sandstone, the walls of the tower extremely thick; both tower and chancel with chamfered plinths. Graduated sandstone slate roof with coped gable, kneelers and cross finial. 3-storey square west tower; 5-bay nave with south porch; 2-bay chancel. Tower has small chamfered loops on each face at various levels, the upper west one with cusped head. Clock face on south wall and projecting angle stair turret, all under battlemented parapet with angle spouts. Nave has 1750 porch covering original heavily-carved Cll doorway of 3 orders of zigzag arches, some with carved heads. Roman altar from Old Penrith and fragments of medieval graveslabs in porch. South C19 windows. Blocked north doorway and C19 windows, but an upper C15 window. Walls of nave raised in C15. Chancel has round-headed priest's doorway, rood-light C15 window and other 2-light windows. 3-light east window looks C17. Interior of tower has vaulted basement. 2 window splays have lintels made of 3 medieval graveslabs. Iron-bound 'yett' gate complete with drawbars. Upper-floor fireplace has reused medieval graveslab to an Inglewood forester c.1290. Nave has late medieval timber roof. One window has its internal medieval splay. C19 and C20 Stained glass, one a memorial to Bishop Nicholson, who was vicar here. White marble wall plaques, one to Bishop Bowstead of Lichfield, born in Great Salkeld in 1801. Wall-mounted C17 armour. Earlier roofline can be seen in west wall. Chancel has effigy moved from nave to Thomas de Caldbec, Rector 1319. Medieval graveslab built into floor and another slate slab of 1490 to Stephen Close, Rector (brass inscription now illegible).

placename:-

Church of St Cuthbert

district:-

Eden

listed building

coordinates:-

NY55163676

date:-

2010

period:-

2010s

database:-

Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage

2 MEDIEVAL GRAVESLABS SOUTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT / / / GREAT SALKELD / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74244 / NY5516436751

courtesy of English Heritage

2 graveslabs. Probably C13. Red sandstone. 2 slabs which originally would have been inside the church, carved with floriated crosses; that nearest the nave also carved with chalice, book and shears, thought to be to William de Routhbury; Rector.

district:-

Eden

listed building

coordinates:-

NY55163675

date:-

2010

period:-

2010s

incumbents:-

Matthew Medicus	1199=1216
Whyteby, Richard de	1292
Insula, Peter de	1302
Haloghton, Gilbert de	1311
Caldebee, Thomas de	1317
Karliol, Henry de	1319
Kendale, William de	1322
Briseban, William	1349
Arthuret, Richard de	1354
Routhbury, William de	1356
Appelby. John de	1364
Thirland, Humphrey de	1379
Strickland, THomas	1406
Kirkeby, John de	1415
Cokk, Alexander	1427
Close, Stephen	1449
Dacre, Hugh	1490
Conyers, Cuthbert	1509
Bourbank, Thomas	1520 (died)
Holgill, William	1520
Nevill, George	1548
Threlkeld, Edward	1567
Dethick, Henry	1588
Pilkington, Richard	1597
Robinson, Giles	1599
Deane, Nicholas	1602
Warwick, George	1604
Wright, Robert	1621
Singleton, Isaac	1622
Wentworth, Peter	1645
West, Lewis	1661
Peechell, John	1667
Musgrave, Thomas	1668
Nicolson, William	1682
Fisher, Joseph	1702
Fleming, George	1705
Fleming, William	1734
Law, Edmund	1743
Eyre, Venn	1756
Paley, William	1782
Anson, Charles	1805
Goodenough, William	1827
Mulcaster, John Scott	1855
Butler, Samuel Johnson	1879
Loftie, Arthur Gershom	1894
Gordon, Charles James	1904

source:-

Dove 2009

diocese:-

Carlisle Diocese

coordinates:-

NY552368

coordinates:-

54d 43.4m N 2d 41.9m W

locality:-

Great Salkeld

photocopy

Church Bells in Leath Ward:-
vol.13 p.194

vol.13 p.195

vol.13 p.196

Whitehead, H: 1894 (?): Church Bells in Leath Ward, part III: TransCWAAS: vol.13: pp.194-217

Dove data

number of bells: 6
weight of tenor: 11 cwt 3 qtr 22 lb (1338lbs)
pitch of tenor: F sharp
scale:-

F sharp, G sharp, A sharp, B, C sharp, D sharp

First 6 notes; intervals TTSTT; F sharp major.

Bells cast by John Taylor and Co, 1882.
Dove 2009

Data courtesy of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers

notes

Treble inscribed:-
[Laus Deo, Charles Richardson Saunders, of Nunwick Hall, Esq., gave me.]
Bell 2 inscribed:-
[Taylor, of Loughborough, cast these bells, 1882]
Bell 3 inscribed:-
[Gloria in excelsis.]
Bell 4 inscribed:-
[S. J. Butler, M.A. Oxon., Rector; R. Thompson, Inglewood, W. Laycock, Burrell Green, Churchwardens.]
Bell 5 inscribed:-
[Adimus tibi gratias omnipotens Deus.]
Tenor inscribed:-
[These bells were placed in this tower at a cost of ~400, collected by S. J. Butler, Rector, and his family, 1882.]
Ellacombe Chimes were also installed in 1882.
:: St Cuthbert's Church, Great Salkeld, Cumbria::: leaflet available in church

old print:-

Bogg 1898

Print, engraving, Norman Porch, Great Salkeld, St Cuthbert's Church, Great Salkeld, Cumberland, by S Harrison, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.

Included on p.58 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg.

date:-

period:-

19th century, late

old print:-

Calverley 1899

Notes on the Early Sulptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, edited by W G Collingwood, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1899.

Doorway:-

Sketches by W G Collingwood.

date:-

1899

period:-

19th century, late; 1890s

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 Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- Door arch, preserved from an earlier building. -- 26.8.2005

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- Door, detail. -- 18.12.2009

photographs

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- Armour collected 1644 after a skirmish in the Civil War, between local Royalists and scottish troops under General Leslie acting for Parliament. -- 18.12.2009

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- pitch pipe -- 18.12.2009

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- Organ, made by Harrison, Durham, 1889; a new case by R Heywood Thompson, 1899. -- 18.12.2009

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- Effigy. -- 18.12.2009

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- 5.2.2010

photographs

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- Stained glass; coat of arms, Major General William Henry Lowther, died 1898. -- 18.12.2009

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- Stained glass; William Nicolson, 1682-1702. -- 18.12.2009

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- Stained glass; coat of arms, John Scott Mulcaster, died 1866 -- 18.12.2009

photographs

Grave slabs.

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- 7.9.2007

St Cuthbert's Church -- Great Salkeld -- Great Salkeld -- Cumbria / -- 18.12.2009

hearsay

Probably first built about 880, one of 40 churches dedicated to St Cuthbert where anglican monks rested with the saint's body during their seven years wandering in fear of the Danes.
Possiby rebuilt 1080; church tower built 1380, new chancel 1480, porch added 1750; nave restored 1879.
Six bells, dedicated 1882, the second states:-
Taylor, of Loughborough, cast these bells 1882.
The turret clock is by Potts, Leedws, 1892, with Cambridge chimes

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