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| placename:- | St John's Church | |
| other name:- | Cowgill Chapel | |
| other name:- | Kirkthwaite Chapel | |
| locality:- | Cowgill | |
| parish |
Dent parish, once in
Yorkshire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| church | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD75628693 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD78
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| 1Km square | SD7586 | |
 St John's Church -- Cowgill -- Dent -- Cumbria / -- 16.6.2006 | ||
| source:- |
OS County series (Yrk 64)
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| Cowgill Church | ||
| placename:- | Cowgill Church | |
| date:- | 1850=1859 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST / / / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484266 / SD7560286947 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Formerly known as: Kirkthwaite Chapel DENTDALE. | ||
| Formerly known as: Cowgill Chapel DENTDALE. | ||
| Church. 1837-8. Coursed sandstone rubble, slate roof. Early English style. Six-bay nave with west bellcote and short 1-bay chancel with attached vestry in north angle. | ||
| EXTERIOR: simple buttresses to three-quarter height, one tall lancet in each bay except the first, which is wider and has a gabled wooden porch protecting a 2-centred arched doorway, and a square slated bellcote on the ridge with wooden louvres and a steep pyramidal roof with a weathervane. The west gable has a short central buttress flanked by lancets and an oculus above and between these. The chancel has a stepped triple-lancet east window. | ||
| INTERIOR: single vessel with very small sanctuary; plastered walls; scissor roof trusses with kingposts; pitch-pine benches; organ in south-east corner. The south wall has 3 arched marble wall monuments commemorating members of the Elam family: (1) Robert Elam C.E., d.1855 at Thorns Hall (Sedbergh CP, qv); (2) John Elam, Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, d.1862 at Thorns Hall; (3) Catherine Elam, d.1874 and Lucy Elam, d.1883, both at Thorns Hall. (See also Monument to Lucy Elam, Dentdale, qv). The north wall has a sculpted wall monument with a seated angel inscribed "G.Nelson, Sculp." commemorating: Anne, widow of John Blackmore, d.1888 at Broadfield House (qv), her father Paul Nixon of Stone House (qv), d.1850, Anne his wife, d.1849, and also George Nelson, sculptor, died London 1888; and a smaller monument commemorating Dora Blackmore, d.1890 at Broadfield House. | ||
| HISTORICAL NOTE: the subject of Professor Adam Sedgwick's "A Memorial to Cowgill Chapel" (1868): a plea for the ancient name of Cowgill to be retained. Forms group with associated gate piers (qv). | ||
| placename:- | Church of St John the Evangelist | |
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD75608694 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| GATE PIERS AND GATES TO CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST / / / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484267 / SD7562086935 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Pair of gate piers and gates to churchyard. Probably 1838. Monolithic sandstone gate piers, wrought-iron gates. Gothic style. Octagonal piers with a cusped panel in each side and pointed cap; pair of gates with swept top rails, spear-headed bars and dog-bars. Forms group with Church of St John the Evangelist (qv). | ||
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building -- gate; gate piers | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD75628693 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| hearsay |
This is now a CofE church, built 1838 on the site of a
nonconformist chapel., Cowgill or Kirkthwaite Chapel.
The foundation stone of Cowgill Chapel was laid by Adam Sedgwick, 1837, close by where his sister had begun a Sunday School, 20 years before:- ... We began by making the rocks echo back the old hundredth Psalms; my brother read one or two short prayers from our liturgy; Mr. Wilson made a short address; I handled the trowel, and laid the stone, and then addressed my countrymen ... The name of Kirkthwaite Chapel was a misnaming by an ecclesiastical official who thought Cowgill too uncouth. It took a lot of pressure, finally the sending of a pamphlet to Victoria, to get the proper name reinstituted by Act of Parliament in 1869. Speakman, Colin: 1982: Adam Sedgwick: Broadoak Press & Geological Society of London & Trinity College, Cambridge:: ISBN 0 906716 01 2 | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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