Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Seaton Hall
	other name:-	Seaton Priory
	locality:-	Seaton
	parish	Waberthwaite parish, once in Cumberland
	parish	Bootle parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s; priory; religious house
	coordinates:-	SD10748992
	10Km square:-	SD18
	1Km square	SD1089
	old map:-	OS County Series (Cmd 85 12)
		County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
	placename:-	Seaton Nunnery
		religious house
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	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 14:-
		...
		SETON NUN.
		Whilst at Bootle, the antiquarian may visit the ruins of a priory of Benedictine nuns, called the Nunnery of Lakelay, near Seaton Hall, which was formerly the seat of Sir Henry Askew, to whom the priory was granted in 1542, being then valued at £12 12s. per annum. There are some remains of the conventical church, with lancet-shaped windows.
	placename:-	Seaton Nunnery
	other name:-	Nunnery of Lakelay
	other name:-	Lakelay, Nunnery of
	person:-	: Askew, Henry, Sir
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	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 184:-
		...
		At Seaton alias Lekely on the opposite side of the Coker, was a Benedictine nunnery, valued at £.12 12s. per ann.
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	map:-	see:- : 1954: Monastic Britain: Ordnance Survey
		nuns
	person:-	: Benedictine Order
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		SEATON HALL WITH ATTACHED RUINS / / / BOOTLE / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76303 / SD1074789923
		courtesy of English Heritage
		House with adjacent ruins of Benedictine nunnery. Nunnery founded c.1190, house C16 with C19 restorations. Stone rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys, U-plan with remains of east end of chancel to end of east wing. East wall of chancel has 3 lancets, central one complete, with internal continuous hoodmould with nail-head mouldings and reset cinquefoil and trefoil to span- drels; south wall has small recesses and parts of trefoil arches, possibly sedilia and corbel in angle at top of remaining wall. North elevation of south wing of 3 bays has 3-light single-chamfered mullioned windows with transoms, but single lights to 1st bay; one label mould. Central entrance has Tudor head; cross-axial stack. East wing west elevation of 2 bays with single-storey end bay; 2- and 4-light windows with 2-light 1st floor windows; east elevation has 2-light windows with labels, stair and 1st floor windows with transom, attic light, all to gable-end; rest has casements and small wing. South elevation has transomed windows of 2:2:3:2 lights, small square light between 3rd and 4th bays of 1st floor. Corbelled lateral stack has octagonal shaft; pointed entrance. West elevation has large projecting lateral stack, ground floor transomed window of 3 lights and canted bay windows; 1st floor 2- and 4-light windows; attic light. North end of west wing has 3-light windows, that to ground floor with relieving arch, that to 1st floor with transom and label; east elevation of west wing has 2 blocked entrances, and 2-light windows to 1st floor; cross-axial stack. Interior dates from C19 restoration.
	placename:-	Seaton Hall
	district:-	Copeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	SD10748992
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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