Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Cloisters, The
	locality:-	Appleby-in-Westmorland
	parish	Appleby-in-Westmorland parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s
	coordinates:-	NY68332040
	10Km square:-	NY62
	References	Listed Buildings 2010
	1Km square	NY6820
		Cloisters, The -- Appleby-in-Westmorland -- Appleby-in-Westmorland -- Cumbria / -- 29.10.2011
		Cloisters, The -- Appleby-in-Westmorland -- Appleby-in-Westmorland -- Cumbria / -- 17.6.2011
	old text:-	Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)
		Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
		Page 157:-
		...
		... The entrance to the yard is by a handsome colonade built by Dr. Thomas Smith, bishop of Carlisle. ...
	person:-	: Smith, Thomas, Dr; Carlisle, Bishop of
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		THE CLOISTERS / / BOROUGHGATE / APPLEBY IN WESTMORLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 73616 / NY6833220406
		courtesy of English Heritage
		1811 by R. Smirke, built as a visual termination of the lower end of the main street. Arcade of seven pointed arches in ashlar, the centre three arches being open and giving access to the churchyard by a rear gate. Over the arcade is a battlemented parapet. The centre portion is stepped up and has the Appleby arms and date 1811 in a quatrefoil panel. At each end of the arcade is a square two-storey tower with machicolated parapet, square-headed door and window in lower storey, and lancets above with hood-moulds, and lancets above with hood-moulds. Right hand tower (east) is a shop, No. 1 Boroughgate.
	placename:-	Cloisters, The
	district:-	Eden
		listed building
	coordinates:-	NY68332040
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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