Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Cuthbert, Bewcastle

St Cuthbert, Bewcastle

St Cuthbert's Church

Bewcastle Church

locality:-

Bewcastle

civil parish:-

Bewcastle (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY56547456

1Km square:-

NY5674

10Km square:-

NY57

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BMQ75.jpg (taken 15.9.2006)
photograph

BMQ76.jpg (taken 15.9.2006)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 8 6)
placename:- St Cuthbert'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. Cuthberts Church (Rectory) / Grave Yard"

evidence:-

old text:- Camden 1789
item:- roman inscription; inscription, roman

source data:-

Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.

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Page 176:- "..."
"... In the church [Bewcastle] almost ruined lies this old inscription, brought from some other place, and serving as a grave-stone:"
"LEG. II. AVG.
FECIT."

evidence:-

old text:- Capper 1808

source data:-

Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published 1808-29.

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"BEWCASTLE, ... The church is in ruins; in the church-yard is an ancient cross, ... It is a rectory, value 2l. in the patronage of the dean and chapter of Carlisle."

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.

NUR1NY57.jpg
"BEWCASTLE"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

notes about bells

stained glass

evidence:-

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

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT / / / BEWCASTLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 78127 / NY5654274561"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. C13, with tower dated 1792, alterations 1901. Mixed calciferous sandstone rubble walls with large. flush quoins, tower partly rendered; graduated green slate roof. 2-storey square west tower/porch; 4-bay nave/chancel. Tower has plank door in round arch with incised date; windows with round arches, impost blocks and key- stones; louvred vents; open bellcote with hipped slate roof surmounted by weather vane. Nave/chancel has tall pointed lancet windows of 1901, angle buttresses. 3-light east window is C13. Interior has upper gallery supported on stone pillars reached by stair from tower; a rebuilding of 1901 of a much larger gallery of 1792. Early C20 pews and furnishings. Medieval font bowl on window ledge near pulpit; C13 piscina with corresponding recess in north wall. Wall tablets to rectors died 1737 and 1834. Part of nave was taken down to build tower in 1792 and walls of nave lowered in 1901 when reroofed."

cross slab gravestones

incumbents:-

Southayke, Robert de	1300 - 1356
Whitebergh, Henry de	1356 -
Bromfield, John de	1360 - 1361
Armstrong, Adam	1361 -
Robert
Stapleton, John de	1380 -
Aglionby, Thomas - Dickson, Thomas alias	1580 - before
Lawson, William	1580 -
Forebench, Charles	1623 -
Patrick, William	1632 -
Gibson, Henry	1643 -
Lowther, Robert	1663 - 1671
Myers, Ambrose	1671 -
Usher, George	1673 -
Lamb, James	1699 - up to
Wybergh, Jeffrey	1699 - 1700
Tonge, Edward	1700 - 1713
Soulby, Matthew	1713 - 1737
Birkett, Edward	1738 - 1750
Faresh, James	1750 -
Bird, John
Messenger, Thomas	1776 - 1806
Graham, John	1806 - 1834
Jackson, John	1834 - 1836
Maughan, John	1836 - 1874
Laurie, Titus Edward	1874 - 1897
Walker, Edward	1898 - 1904
Yorke, George	1904 - 1913

BWQ23.jpg Banner.
(taken 1.6.2012)
photograph

BMQ77.jpg Gravestone, coat of arms, John Armstrong of Horsholm, d.1730.
(taken 15.9.2006)
photograph

BMQ78.jpg Grave stone, coat of arms, Margaret Barron d.1747 wife of John of Righead, d.1770.
(taken 15.9.2006)
photograph

BMQ79.jpg Grave stone, coat of arms of John Wilson of Demainholm, d.1756.
(taken 15.9.2006)

BSE46.jpg Church before 1902.

photograph

BSE47.jpg Church before 1902.

notes:-

The cross here was erected late 7th early 8th century, marking this as a religious site at that time. The present church was built about 1277, using stone from the roman fort. Bishop Nicholson made a visitation in 1703:-

"The Church is built Chapelwise, all of a height, and no Distinction betwixt the Body and the Chancel; only there's a small ascent towards the Communion Table. No Rails ... There's very little plaister on the Walls, no Appearance of any such thing as ye Queen's Arms or ye Ten Commandments. No Bell, to call them into Divine Service. The Font wants a pedestal, and looks like a Swine's trough ..."

The church was rebuilt 1792, when a tower was added; it was altered again in 1901.

: : church leaflet

story:-

It is possible to see the dead light, the spirit form of someone who has died recently, through a notch in a branch of the yew tree in the churchyard.

dedication

person:-

: St Cuthbert

place:-

Bewcastle / Carlisle Diocese

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