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St Catherine tower, Crook
St Catherine's Church
locality:-   Crook
civil parish:-   Crook (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church (remains) 
locality type:-   tower
coordinates:-   SD45009467
1Km square:-   SD4594
10Km square:-   SD49

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BPC61.jpg (taken 26.4.2008)  
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BPC62.jpg  (and rain drops)
(taken 26.4.2008)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 1) 
placename:-  St Catherine's Church
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.
"St Catherine's Church (Per Curacy)"
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  St Katerens
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Sax9SD49.jpg
Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus.  "Sct Katerens"
item:-  private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  S. Katherines
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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SP14SD49.jpg
"S. Katherines"
circle 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  St Katherines
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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MD10SD49.jpg
"S Katherines"
Circle. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  St Katherines
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.
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BO18SD48.jpg
"St. Katherines"
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.
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J5SD49SW.jpg
"Chap"
church 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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CY24SD49.jpg
church symbol; church or chapel 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"TOWER OF OLD PARISH CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE / / / CROOK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76395 / SD4498294659"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church Tower, said to have been built in 1620. The remainder of the church was pulled down in 1887. Rubble walls, plain parapet. Partly blocked segmental arch and blocked doorway with segmental head on ground floor; 2 slit lights to 2nd floor; plain rectangular openings with stone louvres to belfry. RCHM page 72. Ancient Monument No. 108."

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BVU97.jpg  From the new church.
(taken 27.1.2012)  
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BLN07.jpg  Late winter afternoon.
(taken 31.12.2005)  
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BVV01.jpg  Detail from a hainging at St Catherin's Church, Crook.
(taken 27.1.2012)  
hearsay:-  
 The tower was built about 1620, on the old church which dated from about 1516. The body of old church had to be demolished in 1887, but the tower was kept. It was restored in 1993.
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