Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | St Michael's Church | |
| other name:- | Dalston Church | |
| locality:- | Dalston | |
| parish |
Dalston parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| church | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY36925016 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY35
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| References |
: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5
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| 1Km square | NY3650 | |
 St Michael's Church -- Dalston -- Dalston -- Cumbria / -- 6.2.2010 | ||
 St Michael's Church -- Dalston -- Dalston -- Cumbria / -- 6.2.2010 | ||
| 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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| DALSTON WITH CUMDIVOCK | ||
| site name:- | Carlisle Rural Deanery | |
| site name:- | Archdeaconry of Carlisle | |
| site name:- | Diocese of Carlisle | |
| date:- | 1939 | |
| period:- | 1930s | |
| descriptive text:- |
Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
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| Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52. | ||
| Page 99:- | ||
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| [Dalston] ... The church is a plain building, consisting of a nave, chancel, and south transept. The bell-gable is curious. The chancel has been lately repaired in the most tasteful manner by the Lord Bishop, who is patron and impropriator. ... | ||
| date:- | 1839 | |
| period:- | 19th century, early; 1830s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS / / THE SQUARE / DALSTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 78336 / NY3694450162 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Church. C12 and C13, partly rebuilt in 1749; 1890 restoration by C.J. Ferguson. Red sandstone rubble; graduated greenslate roof with coped gables. 4-bay aisled nave, the lower part of which is C13, with double open bellcote and north porch; north and south transepts. 3-bay C13 chancel with 1890 north vestry. Nave; blocked medieval south door now forms recess under 1890 rededication inscription. Blocked C18 entrance in west wall. C19 porch incorporates, inside, an C18 font, 2 medieval graveslabs, a carved Transitional style capital and a C17 inscription stone partly covered by 1914-18 war memorial. C19 2-light windows with geometrical tracery. North transept has C19 circular window with geometrical tracery. Chancel: priest's door in pointed arch under pedimented hood. Original lancet windows and small pointed leper window. 3-light east window. Interior of nave: open timber ceiling of 1890, supported on timber columns. Continuous low stone seat along south wall is thought to be medieval. Walls panelled in 1890 with wood from the C18 box pews. South transept stained glass by Clayton and Bell, 1909. North transept organ screen by C.J. Ferguson. C19 font by R.H. Billings with carved oak cover by Sir Robert Lorimer. Chancel: rounded rere-arches to medieval windows. White marble wall plaque to Reverend Walter Fletcher 1846 by Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson. | ||
| placename:- | Church of St Michael and All Angels | |
| district:- | Carlisle | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY36945016 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| photographs | ||
| The new church porch has been designed without any thought to the bells, whose chains are now out of reach and cannot be rung. | ||
| St Michael's Church -- Dalston -- Dalston -- Cumbria / -- 6.2.2010 -- Two bells in the bellcote. | |
| photocopy |
Whitehead 1886:-
vol.9 p.241 | |
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vol.9 p.242
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vol.9 p.243
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vol.9 p.244
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vol.9 p.245
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Whitehead, H: 1886: Church Bells in Cumberland Ward, part
II: TransCWAAS: vol.9: pp.240-268
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2 cross slab grave covers; in church.
Ryder, Peter: 2001: Cross Slab Grave Covers of Cumbria: Cumbria CC (Carlisle, Cumbria) | ||
| photographs | ||
| St Michael's Church -- Dalston -- Dalston -- Cumbria / -- Cross slab placed in the wall of the old porch. -- 6.2.2010 | |
| photographs | ||
| St Michael's Church -- Dalston -- Dalston -- Cumbria / -- Organ. -- 6.2.2010 | |
| St Michael's Church -- Dalston -- Dalston -- Cumbria / -- Organ. -- 6.2.2010 | |
| St Michael's Church -- Dalston -- Dalston -- Cumbria / -- 6.2.2010 | |
| photographs | ||
| This, perhaps, has nothing to do with the church. | ||
| St Michael's Church -- Dalston -- Dalston -- Cumbria / -- 6.2.2010 -- A date stone placed in the wall of the old porch:- -- 'TB GB / 1693' | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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