Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Wythburn Chapel
	locality:-	Wythburn
	parish	St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		church; chapel
	coordinates:-	NY32431358
	10Km square:-	NY31
	1Km square	NY3213
		Wythburn Chapel -- Wythburn -- St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn -- Cumbria / -- 8.10.2005
		Wythburn Chapel -- Wythburn -- St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn -- Cumbria / -- 8.10.2005
	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.
		WYTHBURN
		United benefice with St John's in the Vale, but separate parish.
	site name:-	Keswick Rural Deanery
	site name:-	Archdeaconry of Westmorland
	site name:-	Diocese of Carlisle
	date:-	1939
	period:-	1930s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		cross, a church
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 45:-
		...
		... Whilst the luncheon is preparing [at the Horse Head Inn], let the tourist take a look at the little chapel on the opposite side of the road; it is an advanced post of Crosthwaite Church, and is one of five similarly situated. The building does not claim much attention, being small, yet commodious; but unfortunately for the dalesmen, the chapel-yard is unconsecrated, and thus one source of useful and heart-softening reflections, arising from the sight of their relations' graves, is closed to them.
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
		Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
		goto source.
		Page 110:-
		... the road passes between the Inn and the Chapel of Wythburn; about eight miles and a half from Ambleside, and the same distance from Keswick. ...
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	old map:-	Clarke 1787 map (Ambleside to Keswick)
		Map series, lakes and roads to the Lakes, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, London, included in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, published by James Clarke, Penrith, and in London etc, from 1787 to 1793.
		Chapel
		church; chapel
	date:-	1787
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	descriptive text:-	West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
		Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
		goto source.
		Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
		Page 210:-
		...
		Oct. 8. I left Keswick, and took the Ambleside road, ...
		Next I passed by the little chapel of Wythburn, out of which the Sunday congregation were then issuing: ...
	date:-	1769
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		Wiborn Church
		circle and line
	placename:-	Wiborn Church
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	old map:-	Bowen 1720 (plate 260)
		Road book, Britannia Depicta Or Ogilby Improv'd, including road strip maps with sections in Westmorland, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, derived from maps by Ogilby, 1675, and a county map of Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, with text by John Owen, published by Emanuel Bowen, London, 1720; published 1720-64.
		At mile 21.
	placename:-	Wibourn Chappel
	date:-	1720
	period:-	18th century, early; 1720s
	old map:-	Ogilby 1675 (plate 96)
		Road book, Britannia, strip road maps, with sections in Westmorland and Cumberland etc, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675; and a general map of England and Wales.
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		In mile 20, Cumberland.
		Wyborn Chap:
		church on the right of the road.
	placename:-	Wyborn Chapel
	date:-	1675
	period:-	17th century, late; 1670s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		WYTHBURN CHURCH / / / ST JOHNS CASTLERIGG AND WYTHBURN / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72191 / NY3243813578
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Parish church. 1640 on the site of an earlier chapel, with restoration of 1740 and 1872 addition. Painted rendered walls on projecting plinth stones, with slate rubble additions, all under graduated greenslate roofs. 3-bay nave with west open bellcote and slightly higher apse of 1872 and south vestry. C20 studded plank door and C20 2-light casement windows, all within plain reveals. Triple lancet west window. Narrow round-headed windows in vestry and apse. Interior has open timber roof on C17 trusses. Stained glass in west window 1888; that in apse by Henry Holiday, 1892 and Hugh Arnold, 1906. Late C19 furnishing and fittings.
	placename:-	Wythburn Church
	district:-	Allerdale
		listed building
	coordinates:-	NY32431357
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	old print:-	Pearson 1900s
		Print, halftone photograph, Wythburn's Modest House of Prayer, Wythburn Chapel, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, published by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s.
		On p.191 of Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts.
		printed at bottom:-
		'WYTHBURN'S MODEST HOUSE OF PRAYER.' (p.190). / (The summit in the background is the shoulder of Helvellyn).
	date:-	1900=1909
	period:-	1900s
	old print:-	Bogg 1898
		Print, engraving, Wythburn Chapel, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, by A Haselgrave, 1897, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
		Included on p.171 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg.
	placename:-	Wythburn Chapel
	date:-
	period:-	19th century, late
	road book:-	Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
		Road book, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, published by G and J Cary, 86 St James's Street, London, 1798-1828.
		page 317-318
		Wythburn Chapel
	placename:-	Wythburn Chapel
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s
	story	Canon Rawnsley wrote about the bell, 1894:- We have come "over t' Raaise Gap" now. We are in Manchester at the Lakes. ... That brand-new bell and its brand-new belfry of the little Wythburn Church is a bit of Manchester work ... For how many years the little bell had hung in its simple cobble-stone rough-cast belfry at Wythburn Chapel one cannot say. ... In a moment, at the bidding of new lords of the soil, the rough old things are demolished; replaced by something spick, span, and new. One almost wishes the good fairies would take away in the night the well-dressed stones and build up againthat queer old cobble belfry; one would forgive the parish clerk, if next Sunday he should be found as his fore-elder in the office at Wythburn was once found, "astride of the roof-ridge waiting to give the 'third ring' to call the worshippers to prayer." On asking that clerk of olden time why he was perched roof-high, his answer to the Wythburn priest was, "O Sir, Jemmy Hawkrigg brak yan o' his car reapps tudder day i' t' hayfield, and they gat t' bell reapp an's forgitten to bring 't back ageaan, seah I've been fworst to git up on t' riggin and ring wi' my hands, and I thowt it was neah use comin' doun ageaan between time and I'se stoppan to give t' third round and than I'se be wi' ye." Rawnsley 1894
	hearsay	There was a chapel here from 1554. The present building dates from 1640; but rebuilt in 1740; with additions 1872.
	hearsay	Parson Sewell from Troutbeck was preaching here but lost his sermon between the pulpit and the wall:- T' sarmonts slipt down t' neuk and ah can't git it out, but sitha ah'll read ye a chapter o' t' Bible worth ten on it.
	hearsay	William Wordsworth, The Waggoner:- Wythburn's modest house of prayer, / as lowly as the lowliest dwelling, ...
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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