Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Old Parsonage | |
| locality:- | Dent | |
| parish |
Dent parish, once in
Yorkshire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD70498693 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD78
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| 1Km square | SD7086 | |
 Old Parsonage -- Dent -- Dent -- Cumbria / -- 20.10.2006 | ||
 Old Parsonage -- Dent -- Dent -- Cumbria / -- Date stone over the door:- -- 'H 1673 / T M' -- 20.10.2006 | ||
| old print:- |
Thompson 1894
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| Guide book, An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson, Sedbergh, published by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894. | ||
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| Print, engraving, Dent Vicarage, Dent, Yorkshire, by S A Symington, published by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894. | ||
| On p.110 of An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson. | ||
| printed at lower centre:- | ||
| S A Symington | ||
| placename:- | Dent Vicarage | |
| date:- | 1894 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| THE OLD VICARAGE AND THE OLD PARSONAGE / / VILLAGE GREEN / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484432 / SD7048986923 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Vicarage and parsonage, now 2 dwellings. Dated 1673 on lintel of parsonage door; extended in C18 and C19, and altered. White-painted rubble, stone slate roof on 2 levels. Irregular plan formed by single-depth 2-unit parsonage on an east-west axis facing north, with a 1-bay double-depth extension at the west end; the vicarage to the left with a single-depth 1-bay front range and a large C19 double-depth addition to the rear. | ||
| EXTERIOR: the parsonage, 2 low storeys and 2 windows, has a square-headed doorway to the right with a part-glazed door, the lintel with raised lettering "H : 1673 / H / T M", a stone slate drip-course over the ground floor to the left, an early C20 rectangular 2-light casement at ground floor, and 2 small 3-light mullioned windows above, with chamfered flush mullions. The extension to the right, breaking forwards and 2 higher storeys, has a large C19 2-light window at ground floor, with a chamfered mullion, and a sashed window with margin panes above. The Old Parsonage to the left has a square-headed doorway abutting the junction (with C20 door and glazed porch), a small square opening at a low level to the left, and above that a tall 24-pane window (perhaps a stair-window). Ridge chimney at junction of lower range and gable chimney to left of that; extruded chimney at left gable of addition to right. Rear: C19 2-storey 2-window addition, facing south, has 2 large 30-pane sashes on each floor. | ||
| INTERIOR: not inspected. | ||
| placename:- | Old Parsonage | |
| other name:- | Old Vicarage | |
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD70488692 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
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Adam Sedgwick, geologist, was born here, 1785.
A plaque on the wall reads:- ADAM SEDGWICK ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF BRITISH GEOLOGY WAS BORN HERE IN THE OLD PARSONAGE IN 1785 Smith, Alan (ed): 2001: Rock Men, The: Cumberland Geological Society (Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9541102 0 X Speakman, Colin: 1982: Adam Sedgwick: Broadoak Press & Geological Sociaety of London & Trinity College, Cambridge:: ISBN 0 906716 01 2 | ||
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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