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Kirkby Thore Hall, Kirkby Thore
Kirkby Thore Hall
locality:-   Kirkby Thore
civil parish:-   Kirkby Thore (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY64152562
1Km square:-   NY6425
10Km square:-   NY62


photograph
CCM79.jpg  The solar.
(taken 27.2.2015)  
photograph
CCM80.jpg  Stained glass.
(taken 27.2.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 9 1) 
placename:-  Hall
source data:-   Maps, 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.

evidence:-   hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:-  Kirkby-thure hall
source data:-   Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Kirkby-thure hall"
in  "Kirkby-thure"

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Kirkby Thore Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Kirkby Thore Hall, Kirkby Thore, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1895.
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HB0046.jpg
Vol.1 no.46 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "46. Kirkby Thore Hall. Kirkby Thore. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.46
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evidence:-   old print:- Taylor 1892
placename:-  Kirkby Thore Hall
source data:-   Print, Kirkby Thore Hall, Kirkby Thore, Westmorland, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, and by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
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TY5022.jpg
Tipped in opposite p.140 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A785.22
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evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Kirkby Thore Hall
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Kirkby Thore Hall, Kirkby Thore, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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HMW093.jpg
On p.148 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  "KIRKBY THORE HALL"
RCHME no. Wmd, Kirkby Thore 3 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.93
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Kirkby Thore Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"KIRKBY THORE HALL / / / KIRKBY THORE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 423080 / NY6415425624"


photograph
CCM78.jpg  (constrained by sun and public right of way: sorry)
(taken 27.2.2015)  

notes:-  
14th century hall

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illlustration

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