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	placename:-	St John's Church
	other name:-	Waberthwaite Church
	locality:-	Hall Waberthwaite
	locality:-	Waberthwaite
	parish	Waberthwaite parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		church
	coordinates:-	SD10029511
	10Km square:-	SD19
	References	: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5
	1Km square	SD1095
		St John's Church -- Hall Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Cumbria / -- 30.9.2006
		St John's Church -- Hall Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Cumbria / -- 30.9.2006
	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.
		WABERTHWAITE
		Held in plurality with Corney.
	site name:-	Gosforth Rural Deanery
	site name:-	Archdeaconry of Furness
	site name:-	Diocese of Carlisle
	date:-	1939
	period:-	1930s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		CHURCH OF ST JOHN / / / WABERTHWAITE / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76290 / SD1002695116
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Parish Church. Probably C13 foundation with later additions and alterations. Wet-dashed rubble. Graduated slate roof with stone copings; gabled bellcote added at west end in 1796. Single-cell plan. Gabled south porch (rebuilt 1825) has internal stone benches and plank inner door. All windows multi-light, stone-mullioned, of various dates. Interior was flagged, pewed, and ceiled in 1807. Octagonal wooden pulpit has carved decoration with initialled and dated inscription: THE GIFT OF ABRAHAM CHAMBERS GENT. VAE MIHI SI NON VERUM PRAEDICO S R 1630 (sic). Monolithic stone font at west end, probably medieval, is square in plan on chamfered plinth with stop-chamfered corners. Above door is panel showing George III coat-of-arms, dated 1778.
	placename:-	Church of St John
	district:-	Copeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	SD10029511
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	photocopy	Parker 1901:- series 2 vol.2 p.105
	series 2 vol.2 p.106
	series 2 vol.2 p.107
	Parker, Charles A: 1901: Bells at Gosforth, Irton, and Waberthwaite: TransCWAAS: series 2 vol.2: pp.99-107; and plates
	incumbents:-	Benedict 1220 Peter, Sir 1248=1252 Brigham, William 1416=1417 Weston, John de 1420 Burton, Richard, Sir 1421 Carter, John, Sir 1425 Walker, Thomas, Sir 1439 Walker, William 1535 Grainger, William 1677 Holmes, Henry 1698 Manston, Robert 1704 Steele, John 1708 Steele, John 1737 Nicholson, Thomas 1776 Stanley, Joseph 1825 Molyneux, Thomas 1847 Brassington, Thomas 1868 Fletcher, Isaac 1874 Harrison, John 1892 Joyce, John 1911
	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.
		In the churchyard:-
		Drawing by W S Calverley.
		Photographs by W L Fletcher.
	date:-	1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
		photographs
		St John's Church -- Hall Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Cumbria / -- Coat of arms, George II, 1778. -- 30.9.2006
		St John's Church -- Hall Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Cumbria / -- pulpit, two tiers. -- 30.9.2006
		St John's Church -- Hall Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Cumbria / -- Inscription on pulpit:- -- 'THE GIFT OF M ABRAHAM CHAMBERS GENT ...' -- and in Latin which translates:- -- 'Woe is me if I preach not the truth SR 1630.' -- 30.9.2006
		St John's Church -- Hall Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Cumbria / -- Box pews. -- 17.4.2009
		St John's Church -- Hall Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Cumbria / -- Box pew, number 16. -- 17.4.2009
		St John's Church -- Hall Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Waberthwaite -- Cumbria / -- Cross, dated between 800-1000. -- 30.9.2006
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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