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There was gone (under Hawes Water).
placename:- Holy Trinity Church
other name:- Mardale Church
site name:- Haweswater Reservoir
locality:- Mardale Green
locality:- Mardale
parish Shap Rural parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
church
coordinates:- NY475117
10Km square:- NY41

1Km square NY4711

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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MARDALE
No church symbol.
United benefice with Bampton, one parish.
site name:- Lowther Rural Deanery
site name:- Archdeaconry of Carlisle
site name:- Diocese of Carlisle
date:- 1939
period:- 1930s

old print:- Pearson 1900s

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Print, halftone photograph, Mardale Chapel, Haweswater, Holy Trinity Church, Mardale, Shap Rural, Westmorland, published by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s.
On p.228 of Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts.
printed at bottom:-
MARDALE CHAPEL: HAWESWATER. (p.227).

placename:- Mardale Chapel
date:- 1900=1909
period:- 1900s

source:- Martineau 1855 -- presumably relevant

Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-71.
Page 173:-
... The path winds through the levels, round the bases of the knolls, past the ruins of the old church, ...
date:- 1855
period:- 19th century, late; 1850s

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.
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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 138:-
...
About one mile further from the head of the lake [Hawes Water] stands Mardale Chapel, which is under Shap; it is a wild solitary region, surrounded by lofty mountains and fells. Near this, in former days, there stood 'a simple cottage ...' its owners had lived there in succession for many generations. A few paces took them to Mardale Chapel, their place of worship, and when they died, their long home was on their own premises.
Page 159:-
...
[Chapelhill] ... Mardale Chapel of Ease, in a picturesque and fertile situation, surrounded by lofty fells, stands here; ...

placename:- Mardale Chapel
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.
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Page 116:-
Those who wish to penetrate the hidden recesses of the mountains may go the whole length of the lake, and afterwards pass the chapel, which is a small building closely embowered with yews and sycamores, its walls exhibiting some neat monumental inscriptions; particularly one to the memory of one of its ministers, who died in 1799, having served the cure upwards of fifty years. ...
date:- 1823
period:- 19th century, early; 1820s

source:- Otley 1818

New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s.
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Marked by a cross.
church

photographs
tiny photograph, 
button to large Holy Trinity Church -- Haweswater Reservoir -- Mardale Green -- Mardale -- Shap Rural -- Cumbria / -- Penrith Museum
tiny photograph, 
button to large Holy Trinity Church -- Haweswater Reservoir -- Mardale Green -- Mardale -- Shap Rural -- Cumbria / -- Painting in St Patrick's Church, Bampton.

photographs
courtesy of John Bennet
tiny photograph, 
button to large Holy Trinity Church -- Haweswater Reservoir -- Mardale Green -- Mardale -- Shap Rural -- Cumbria / -- 'MARDALE CHURCH' -- and monogram:- -- 'RED'

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