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placename:- St Peter's Church
other name:- Camerton Church
parish Camerton parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
church
coordinates:- NY03543005
10Km square:- NY03
References : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

1Km square NY0330

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St Peter's Church -- Camerton -- Cumbria / -- 14.5.2007
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St Peter's Church -- Camerton -- Cumbria / -- 14.5.2007

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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CAMERTON WITH ST. PAUL'S SEATON
site name:- Maryport Rural Deanery
site name:- Archdeaconry of Carlisle
site name:- Diocese of Carlisle
date:- 1939
period:- 1930s

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
CHURCH OF ST PETER / / / CAMERTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72226 / NY0355130058
courtesy of English Heritage
Parish Church. 1694 and 1796 with 1855 tower, on medieval site. Roughcast walls with tower of calciferous sandstone rubble with angle buttresses. Graduated greenslate roof. 3-bay nave with square west tower/porch and south chapel; single-bay chancel. Tower has West door in chamfered pointed arch under lancet windows and quatrefoil bell openings; short octagonal spire. Nave has 2-light plate-tracery windows. Chancel has 2 small trefoil-headed windows, one in east wall, and 3-light east window. Interior has plain plaster walls and ceiling with numerous C19 wall plaques. 1510 effigy of Knight Thomas Curwen (Black Tom). Wooden panel removed from Camerton Hall is dated 1625 and inscribed B.C. H.C. (Henry & Bridget Curwen), otherwise all late C19 woodwork.

placename:- Church of St Peter
district:- Allerdale
listed building
coordinates:- NY03553005
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

2 cross slab grave covers.
Ryder, Peter: 2001: Cross Slab Grave Covers of Cumbria: Cumbria CC (Carlisle, Cumbria)

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