Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | St Mary's Church | |
| other name:- | Crosthwaite Church | |
| locality:- | Crosthwaite | |
| parish |
Crosthwaite and Lyth
parish, once in Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| church | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD44599113 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD49
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| References |
: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5
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| 1Km square | SD4491 | |
 St Mary's Church -- Crosthwaite -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- 9.11.2005 | ||
 St Mary's Church -- Crosthwaite -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- 9.11.2005 | ||
| old map:- |
Nurse 1918
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| 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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| CROSTHWAITE ST. MARY | ||
| site name:- | Kendal Rural Deanery | |
| site name:- | Archdeaconry of Westmorland | |
| site name:- | Diocese of Carlisle | |
| date:- | 1939 | |
| period:- | 1930s | |
| old map:- |
Garnett 1850s-60s H
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| Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. | ||
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| cross, a church | ||
| date:- | 1850=1869 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| CHURCH OF ST MARY / / / CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 77092 / SD4460791142 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Church. 1878. Rock-faced limestone with sandstone ashlar dressings and slate roof. Single-vessel nave and chancel, canted apse, south transept and west tower. 4-bay nave and chancel has gabled buttresses, cornice, plain coped parapet and gable. 3-light pointed windows have double-cusped pointed lights and hoods. Entrance to north-west in shallow gabled porch. South-east transept has 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery; stack to east angle. Apse has coved cornice with Tudor flower ornament, 3-light window and single lights to angles have Perpendicular tracery, hoodmoulds with head stops and sill course. Gable cross-traceried light to west end, north of tower. 3-stage tower has weathered set back buttresses and cill, 2-light traceried west window, square traceried window to 2nd stage, and 2-light traceried and louvred bell openings, all with hoods and head stops. Top cornice with gargoyles and coped parapet with blind quatrefoils with escutcheons. Lead-clad pyramidal roof with wind vane. Interior has deep arch braced roof trusses with king pendants with longitudinal and lateral arch braces, hollow chamfered braces and purlins. Chancel has trusses with collars with brattishing, 2 trusses have hammer beams carved as angels flanking truss with pendants to collar, which continues as ridge piece to transept, rich mouldings to braces and purlins. Tower arch of 2 orders, hood with headstops, timber screen with stained glass to traceried openings. Octagonal font with carved panels and capital to shaft. Niche in west wall has bust of W. Pearson (a friend of Wordsworth) died 1856. Monument to Dickinson family, 1803 by Webster of Kendal. Organ in transept. Octagonal timber pulpit on stone base has blind tracery. Open tracery to choir stalls. Apse has panelled east wall painted with symbols of Passion, angels, the Blessed Virgin and St Peter, and scenes from the Passion. Brass altar rail on enriched supports. C19 stained glass to east and west windows, late C20 glass to 2 south windows. | ||
| placename:- | Church of St Mary | |
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD44609114 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| source:- |
Dove 2009
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| diocese:- | Carlisle Diocese | |
| coordinates:- |
SD446911 | |
| coordinates:- |
54d 18.8m N 2d 51.2m W | |
| locality:- | Crosthwaite | |
| photographs | ||
| St Mary's Church -- Crosthwaite -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- Peal board -- '... A Peal of Plain Bob (720 changes) was rung in this Tower on Sunday March 13th. 1910. being the first peal accomplished by local Ringers ...' -- 9.4.2010 | |
| Dove data |
number of bells: 6
weight of tenor: 9 cwt 3 qtr 21 lb (1113lbs) pitch of tenor: G (788Hz) scale:- G, A, B, C, D, E First 6 notes; intervals TTSTT; G major.bells cast by John Warner and Sons, 1885. Dove 2009 | |
| Data courtesy of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers | ||
| references |
Handley, Diana: 1983: Notes on Furness Branch Bells:::
inscriptions and history
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| notes |
A tower was added to the church in 1626 at the cost of
William Gilpin, Windyhowe, and gave 3 bells.
Bell 1 inscribed:- [Jesus be our speed.] Bell 2 inscribed:- [Soli Deo Gloria.] Bell 3 inscribed:- [A young man grave in Godliness William Gilpin by name gave ~50 to make these sounds to God's eternal fame.] A new tower was built, 1885, and:- ... a peal of six bells and the necessary machinery for chiming same ... In 1773 the church at Kendal sold or gave 3 of their old bells to this church - one bell cast late 15th or early 16th century; two bells cast by Christopher Hodson, London, 1695. The metal of these bells was probably used in the new 6 cast by John Warner and Sons, 1885. The bell frame was wood with plain bearings; the ring was tuned and rehung with roller bearings by John Taylor and Co, Loughborough, 1982. Windsor, E P L: 1997: St Mary's Church Crosthwaite::: leaflet available in church | |
| photographs | ||
| St Mary's Church -- Crosthwaite -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- 9.11.2005 | |
| St Mary's Church -- Crosthwaite -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- Organ built by Wilkinson, Kendal, 1865. -- 9.11.2005 | |
| St Mary's Church -- Crosthwaite -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- Organ built by Wilkinson, Kendal, 1865. -- 9.11.2005 | |
| St Mary's Church -- Crosthwaite -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- Mothers Union banner. -- 9.11.2005 | |
| St Mary's Church -- Crosthwaite -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- Stained glass, memorial to Major Lawrence Steele Hoggarth, d.1962. -- 16.3.2012 | |
| St Mary's Church -- Crosthwaite -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- Stained glass window, south wall; William of Wykeham on the left, and Henry VI on the right, adoring the Virgin Mary and Child, design by Harry Stammers, about 1955, memorial to Anthony Marchbank Carrick, d.1949.. -- 16.3.2012 | |
| St Mary's Church -- Crosthwaite -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- Stained glass 1955, detail. -- 9.11.2005 | |
| St Mary's Church -- Crosthwaite -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- Stained glass 1955, detail. -- 9.11.2005 | |
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An early church here was built 1504, tower and chancel added
1626; rebuilt 1817. The parish became separate in 1869, and
a new church built 1878, the old tower rebuilt 1885.
Windsor, E Peter L: 1997 (approx): St Mary's Church Crosthwaite | ||
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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