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| St John, Firbank | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St John's Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Firbank Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| locality:- | Firbank | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| civil parish:- | Firbank (formerly Westmorland) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| locality type:- | church | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| coordinates:- | SD62799358 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1Km square:- | SD6293 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10Km square:- | SD69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 BLT17.jpg (taken 31.3.2006)  BLT18.jpg (taken 31.3.2006) |
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| This chapel replaced the one near Fox's Pulpit which was destroyed in a storm. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 40 1) |
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| 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. "Church (Per Curacy) / Grave Yard" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Nurse 1918 |
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| 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. NUR1SD69.jpg "FIRBANK" item:- JandMN : 27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Church of St John |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CHURCH OF ST JOHN / / B6257 / FIRBANK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75650 / SD6279393575" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Church. 1842. Attributed to George Webster. Stone rubble with slobbered mortar and slate roof. 4-bay nave with chancel apse and west bell turret. Top cornice and coped gables with kneelers, finials to east. Weathered buttress towards west end, and diagonal buttresses. Apse has 3 stepped lancets. West end has pointed entrance, the datestone above reading: "AD/1841". Small corbelled square bell turret has string course and projecting embattled parapet; round-headed louvred bell openings. Interior: flat ceilings, that to apse with cornice and rose. Chancel arch has canted jambs with caps. Lord's Prayer, Creed, and Commandment boards. Roll moulding round east window. West gallery over vestry and stair. Altar rail on cast iron bracketed supports." |
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 BLT19.jpg Painted board in the church porch:- "This Chapel was rebuilt upon a new Site and enlarged in the year 1842 by which means 30 additional Sittings were obtained and in consequence of a Grant from the Incorporated Society for promoting the enlargement, building and repairing Churches and Chapels, the whole of that number are hereby declared to be free and unappropreated forever, in addition to 100 Sittings formerly provided, the whole of which are free. John Garnett, Minister. Thomas Bayliff, Chapel Warden." (taken 31.3.2006) |
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