Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Holy Trinity, Howgill

Holy Trinity, Howgill

Holy Trinity Church

Howgill Church

locality:-

Howgill

civil parish:-

Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

SD63369503

1Km square:-

SD6395

10Km square:-

SD69

BSH55.jpg (taken 16.3.2010)
photograph

BJV94.jpg (taken 23.9.2005)

evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:- Howgill Chapel

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.

BO18NY70.jpg
"Howgill Ch."
circle, tower
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd)

source data:-

Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.

J5SD69SW.jpg
"Chap"
church
item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Howgill Chapel

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.

FD02SD69.jpg
"Howgill Chap."
item:- JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

BSH53.jpg The bell.
(taken 16.3.2010)

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Church of the Holy Trinity

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY / / HOWGILL LANE / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484575 / SD6337095035"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. 1838, by Edmund Sharpe. Mixed random rubble with sandstone dressings and graduated slate roof. Small building in simple Early English style. Nave with short chancel. The gabled 3-window west front, symmetrical, with narrow diagonal buttresses, has a 2-centred arched doorway with chamfered surround, hoodmould and double doors, a lancet window each side and another over the doorway, and gable bellcote. The 6-window north and south sides each have one buttress between the 1st and 2nd windows, and tall lancet windows with chamfered reveals, diamond leaded glazing and hoodmoulds. The chancel, which is slightly lower, has one similar window in each side and a stepped triple-lancet east window."
"INTERIOR: west gallery over internal porch; box pews; panelled font in Early English style. Very picturesque site in valley beside beck."

evidence:-

old print:- Thompson 1894
placename:- Howgill Chapel

source data:-

Print, engraving, Howgill Chapel, Howgill, Sedbergh, Yorkshire, published by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894.

click to enlarge
THP118.jpg
On p.83 of An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson.
item:- Armitt Library : A1612.B18
Image © see bottom of page

incumbents:-

Chambers, Walter	1697 -
Holme, John	1744 -
Sanderson, Thomas	1746 -
Tomlinson, Robert	1747 -
Udal, Joseph	1759 -
Alderson, Christopher	1760 -
Metcalfe, Lister	1763 -
Mason, Edward	1765 -
Metcalf, John	1769 -
Browne, John	1770 -
Sedgwick, John	1773 -
Green, Isaac	1836 -
Powell, Edward	1875 -
Nixon, Louis	1891 -
Guy, Douglas S	1894 -
Whaley, Oswald	1905 -