Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | St Peter's Church | |
| other name:- | Kirkbampton Church | |
| locality:- | Kirkbampton | |
| parish |
Kirkbampton parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| church | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY30525647 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY35
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| References |
: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5
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| 1Km square | NY3056 | |
 St Peter's Church -- Kirkbampton -- Kirkbampton -- Cumbria / -- 30.6.2007 | ||
 St Peter's Church -- Kirkbampton -- Kirkbampton -- Cumbria / -- 30.6.2007 | ||
| 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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| KIRKBAMPTON | ||
| site name:- | Carlisle 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 / / / KIRKBAMPTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / I / 71925 / NY3052656465 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Church. C12, restored 1870-71 and again in 1882 dated on rainwater heads. Squared and coursed red and calciferous sandstone (some from the nearby Roman Wall); graduated greenslate roof with coped gables; sandstone slate on chancel. 3-bay nave with west open bellcote for 2 bells; and north porch. 2-bay chancel with north organ chamber and vestry. C19 gabled stone porch; entrance to nave has narrow Norman arch with column shafts and zigzag decoration, figurative sculptured tympanum. C19 2-light panel tracery windows with hood moulds. Chancel: 3-light east window, original Norman lancet in south wall, head of a similar lancet has been rebuilt in north wall of organ chamber. Blocked south door is Norman with tympanum of geometric design in different coloured stone in 3 horizontal bands. Interior has late C19 furnishings and fittings, C19 panelled wooden ceiling in nave. Norman chancel arch with zigzag decoration and scallop capitals. Trefoil-head piscina with arched recess to right. Roman sculptured and inscribed stone from the Roman Wall found during C19 restoration has been rebuilt into south wall. C19 barrel-vaulted timber roof in chancel. East window stained glass of 1871 by Morris & Co., one other window of 1885 by E.R. Suffling. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, xiii, pp252-4. | ||
| placename:- | Church of St Peter | |
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY30525646 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| photocopy |
Whitehead 1886:-
vol.9 p.249 | |
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vol.9 p.250
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Whitehead, H: 1886: Church Bells in Cumberland Ward, part
II: TransCWAAS: vol.9: pp.240-268
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| old print:- |
Calverley 1899
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| 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. | ||
| Tympanum:- | ||
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| Sketch by W G Collingwood. | ||
| date:- | 1899 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
| photographs | ||
| St Peter's Church -- Kirkbampton -- Kirkbampton -- Cumbria / -- Door arch. -- 30.6.2007 | |
| St Peter's Church -- Kirkbampton -- Kirkbampton -- Cumbria / -- Detail of the tympanum of the door arch; said to be a small figure of a bishop or an abbot? -- 30.6.2007 | |
| St Peter's Church -- Kirkbampton -- Kirkbampton -- Cumbria / -- Chancel arch. -- 30.6.2007 | |
| St Peter's Church -- Kirkbampton -- Kirkbampton -- Cumbria / -- Organ. -- 30.6.2007 | |
| St Peter's Church -- Kirkbampton -- Kirkbampton -- Cumbria / -- Organ pipes. -- 30.6.2007 | |
| St Peter's Church -- Kirkbampton -- Kirkbampton -- Cumbria / -- Cupboard by altar. -- 30.6.2007 | |
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5 cross slab grave covers, in churchyard.
Ryder, Peter: 2001: Cross Slab Grave Covers of Cumbria: Cumbria CC (Carlisle, Cumbria) | ||
| story |
Buried in the churchyard is a mosstrooper who came raiding
from Scotland, named Boothill. He was found asleep on the
ground by one Hody, who slipped Boothill's sword out of its
scabbard and cut off his head. The gravestone has a sword
engraved upon it.
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| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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