Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Bride, Kirkbride

St Bride, Kirkbride

St Bride's Church

St Bridget's Church

Kirkbride Church

locality:-

Angerton

locality:-

Kirkbride

civil parish:-

Kirkbride (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY22955733

1Km square:-

NY2257

10Km square:-

NY25

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BPN48.jpg (taken 26.7.2008)
photograph

BUI24.jpg (taken 3.4.2011)

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.

NUR1NY25.jpg
"KIRKBRIDE"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

notes about bells

stained glass

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Church of St Bride

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST BRIDE / / / KIRKBRIDE / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 71985 / NY2296057329"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. C12 with C19 restoration. Large blocks of red sandstone (thought to be of Roman origin) with flush quoins. Nave roof of graduated sandstone slates; chancel, vestry and porch with greenslate roofs. 3-bay nave with west open bellcote and south porch; lower single-bay chancel with south vestry. Nave has round-headed south entrance with C19 timber-framed porch. Tall C19 cusped-headed windows, that to left of 2-lights. North wall has narrow blocked entrance under flat lintel. One original narrow round-headed window and similar window in chancel. C19 intersecting east window. Interior: unmoulded chancel arch on plain imposts. Square-bowled font with knobbly leaf decoration around the underside and trefoil and quatrefoil panel decorations on each side. Small square stoup in chancel has rounded corners and carved lamb and cross decoration. Inscription over south entrance, now door into vestry, E(cclesia) Bride. C19 and early C20 stained glass, east window by Kayll &Co, Leeds, 1904. Photographs of the 1895-8 restoration in the vestry, show that almost all of the chancel was taken down and rebuilt."

cross slab gravestones

incumbents:-

Bromfield, Robert de	1341 -
Westerton, John de	1342 -
Fisher, Cuthbert	1580 -
Allanby, Robert	1580 -
Hemmerford, Giles	1586 -
Dean, Nicholas	1587 -
Hudson, Mr	1643 -
Lumley, Thomas	1660 -
Hall, Henry	1678 -
Walker, John	1717 -
Cowper, John	1743 -
Gillbanks, George	1750 -
Metcalfe, Francis snr	1823 -
Metcalfe, Francis jnr	1835 -
Flowers, William	1835 -
Hallifax, Joseph snr	1847 -
Hallifax, Joseph jnr	1855 -
Lumb, Henry	1869 -
Whiteside, Joseph	1894 -
Hopper, William Robertson	1896 -
Jefferson, William	1904 -
Nedham, George	1911 -

evidence:-

old drawing:-
placename:- Kirkbride Church

source data:-

Drawing, Kirkbride Church, St Bride's Church, Kirkbride, Cumberland, by Samuel Bough, Kirkbride, Cumbria, England, late 19th century.

click to enlarge
PR1103.jpg
Evening view of Kirkbride church and its graveyard, casting lengthy shadows.
inscribed at bottom right:- "Kirkbrid[ ] Chur[ ]"
item:- Tullie House Museum : 1970.80.30
Image © Tullie House Museum

BPN50.jpg Organ.
(taken 26.7.2008)
photograph

BUI20.jpg Organ.
(taken 3.4.2011)
photograph

BUI23.jpg Banner
(taken 3.4.2011)
photograph

BUI21.jpg Font.
(taken 3.4.2011)
photograph

CBM68.jpg Carved stone.
(taken 22.8.2014)
photograph

CBM67.jpg Chancel.
(taken 22.8.2014)
photograph

BUI19.jpg (taken 3.4.2011)

notes:-

The church stands on the site of a roman fort. It is recorded in a pipe roll of 1189. By the time of a visitation of Bishop Nicholson, 1870s:-

"... it looks more like a pigsty than the house of God ..."

And by 1880 the question was whether the walls would fall inward or outward. It was restored in the 19th century, and a porch added; a vestry was added in the 1960s.

: : church leaflet

notes:-

It is said that a lane leading from the church to Marsh Road was called Wine Lonning. Smuggled wine was brought up this lane to the cellars of the rectory, and then on to the Wheatsheaf Inn.

dedication

person:-

: St Bride

place:-

Kirkbride / Carlisle Diocese

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