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Holy Trinity, Seathwaite
Holy Trinity Church
Seathwaite Church
locality:-   Seathwaite
civil parish:-   Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD22919614
1Km square:-   SD2296
10Km square:-   SD29
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

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BLK45.jpg (taken 17.11.2005)  
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BLK46.jpg (taken 17.11.2005)  
evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   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 1855-76.
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Page 109:-  "Newfield Church, in Seathwaite, is the place where Robert Walker, called "the Wonderful," exercised his office for sixty years. ... The church is little loftier or larger than the houses near, But for the bell, the traveller would hardly"
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Page 110:-  "have noticed it for a church on approaching: but when he has reached it, there is the porch, and the little graveyard, with a few tombs, and the spreading yew, encircled by the seat of stones and turf where the early comers sit and rest till the bell calls them in. A little dial, on a whitened post in the middle of the enclosure, tells the time to the neighbours who have no clocks. ... There are changes even here. ... there is a decline in the number of attendants at church. The Wesleyan"
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Page 111:-  "chapel at Ulpha has drawn away some; and the taste for Sunday diversion, which has found its way over the hills from Coniston, estranges more; and the descendant and successor of the good pastor says that "the old stocks are gone, and the new families are different." Thus is the large world's experience reflected in this little vale!"
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Seathwaite, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS169
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, b/w, Holy Trinity Church, Seathwaite, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS659
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evidence:-   old map:- Nurse 1918
source data:-   Map, The Diocese of Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Rev Euston J Nurse, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, 11 English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 2nd edn 1939.
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"SEATHWAITE"
item:-  JandMN : 27
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 notes about bells
 memorial - Wonderful Walker
 stained glass
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of Holy Trinity
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY / / / DUNNERDALE WITH SEATHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75855 / SD2290496137"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. 1874. Money given by H.W. Schneider. Coursed slate rubble with slate roof. Single vessel nave and chancel with north organ loft and vestry. South elevation has 4 plain unchamfered lancet windows, with wide buttress between nave and chancel. Gabled porch has pointed arch and angle buttresses; flat rough stone attached, now with sundial, used at one time as shearing stool by Rev Robert Walker, for 67 years curate, made famous by Wordsworth as 'Wonderful Walker'. North elevation has 3 lancets to nave, gabled organ loft and flat-roofed vestry with coping. West end has 2 lancets and gabled outhouse with pointed entrance and gabled bellcote. East end has 3 stepped lancets, vestry entrance and leaded casement. Interior is simple, scissor rafter roof with ashlaring, double-chamfered chancel arch. Georgian royal arms. Holy water stoup set in wall. Chancel has arch to organ loft and ten commandments painted on wall; some stained glass. Brass plate re-set from grave stone, records Rev R. Walker (died 1802) and his wife , Anne (died 1800)."

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BQO76.jpg  Organ by Alexander Young and Sons, Manchester, 1902.
(taken 29.5.2009)  
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BQO77.jpg  Organ, makers plate:-
"ALEX. YOUNG &SONS, / ORGAN BUILDERS, / MANCHESTER. / 1902." (taken 29.5.2009)  
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BQO78.jpg  Inscribed slate:-
"A.D. 1756 &A.D. 1757 / This C. of SEATHWAITE was augmd. / And A.D. 1760 Lands purchasd. with L800 / Whereof Given by / QN. ANNE'S Bounty ... 400 / By Execrs. of WM. STRATFORD L.L.D. ... 200 / By other Benefrs. ... 200" (taken 29.5.2009)  

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BTO23.jpg "THE OLD SEATHWAITE CHAPEL" (taken 24.9.2010)  

: 1939 (2 September): News, The
dedication
person:-    : Holy Trinity
place:-   Seathwaite / Carlisle Diocese
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