Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Mary, Broughton in Furness

St Mary, Broughton in Furness

St Mary's Church

Broughton Church

locality:-

Broughton in Furness

civil parish:-

Broughton West (formerly Lancashire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

SD20948738

1Km square:-

SD2087

10Km square:-

SD28

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BJR52.jpg (taken 5.8.2005)
photograph

BTJ90.jpg (taken 25.8.2010)

evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H

source data:-

Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.

GAR2SD28.jpg
cross, a church
item:- JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page

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.

NUR1SD28.jpg
"BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS WITH DUNNERDALE"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

stained glass, all

kneelers

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:- Church of St Mary Magdalene

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE / / CHURCH STREET / BROUGHTON WEST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75822 / SD2093287385"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. Medieval south aisle, formerly nave and chancel, with C12 south entrance. C16 and Cl9 alterations; single-vessel nave and chancel, 1874; south-west tower, 1900. C19 alterations and extensions by Paley and Austin. Stone rubble with ashlar dressings and bands; and slate roofs, sill courses and coped gables. Nave has 2 round-headed double-chamfered windows to west end; shallow weathered buttresses, 2 paired windows and single window to north elevation; 3-bay chancel has larger buttresses, 2 with half-round upper parts. 3 round-headed windows and rose window to chancel east end. South aisle has 3-light Perpendicular east window; south elevation has 4 round-headed windows and C16 eastern window of 3 pointed lights. Gabled south parch has open timber frame on stone base; inner opening is C12, of 2 orders with nookshafts and water leaf capitals. Tower has broad clasping buttresses and corbel table supporting coped parapet with east and west gablets. Round-headed windows and louvred bell openings. Interior has 5-bay arcade on round piers with plain and waterleaf capitals. Nave roof has coupled rafters and enriched kingpost trusses. Low wall to chancel; pulpit has blind tracery panels stalls have turned balusters and relief panels; open tracery panels to lectern. Sanctuary has wainscotting and reredos with relief panels and cresting. Aisle has restored piscina, goblet form font with moulded base and shaft; collar and tie-beam roof. Round-headed tower door with tympanum. C19 stained glass."

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010
item:- Atkinson Monument

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"ATKINSON MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 10.5 METRES TO SOUTH OF ST MARY'S CHURCH / / CHURCH STREET / BROUGHTON WEST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75825 / SD2096987355"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Headstone. 1805. Ashlar. Triangular headed stone has fluted fan to head. Inscription records Jane, wife of John Atkinson and sister of William Ashburner Esqr of Bombay in the East Indies (died 1805) and her son Thomas (died 1775 aged 4). Later inscription to her husband (died 1821)."

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"GROUP OF 4 TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 14 METRES TO SOUTH OF ST MARY'S CHURCH / / CHURCH STREET / BROUGHTON WEST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75824 / SD2094787359"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"4 tombs immediately to south of sundial (q.v.). Late C18 and early C19. Ashlar. Chest tomb to Elizabeth Pritt (died 1765) and her husband Nicholas (died 1779) and their son Sawrey (died 1782) and his wife Mary (died l789). Chest tomb to east has rusticated pilaster strips and fielded panels. Records James, son of Sawrey and Mary Pritt, and his wife and children in tabular form, dates of death 1795 to 1844 (with later additions to 1891). 2 table tombs to south, each with 6 balusters and moulded edges, inscriptions illegible; that to south has relief cherub and crossed bones."

ring of bells

incumbents:-

Roger	1197 -
Morton, Richard de	1300 -
Wakefield, Richard de	1313 -
Waynscarth, Henry	1350 -
Bretby, John de	1376 -
Waghen, Robert de	1377 -
Gilling, William de	1383 -
Adamson, John	1389 -
Burton, William de	1390 -
Keswyk, Robery	1428 -
Fuyston, John	1434 -
Langton, William	1446 -
Lese, John	1453 -
Thornton, Walter	1463 -
Gedney, William	1466 -
Ascogh, Robert	1497 -
Lucas, George	1506 -
Stavely, William	1517 -
Bossal, Robert	1522 -
Bolton, Christopher	1533 -
Dogeson, Richard	1579 -
Askew, Thomas	1606 -
Skelling, James	1623 -
Rigby, Thomas	1650 -
Inman, Thomas	1663 -
Turner, Anthony	1664 -
Wainhouse, George	1668 -
Taylor, Joseph	1696 -
Wright, John	1698 -
Walker, Isaac	1739 -
Cooperson, Timothy	1749 -
Gilpin, Jeremiah	1777 -
Pearson, William	1789 -
Robinson, John	1843 -
Malleson, Frederick Amadeus	1870 -
Cropper, James	1897 -
Monnington, Thomas Pateshall	1905 -

sundial

notes:-

Described in:-

Butler, Lawrence (ed): 2011: Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne for Cumbria, 1833-1872: CWAAS:: ISBN 978 1 873124 52 9

Extracted from the original notes made by Sir Stephen, now in Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Flintshire, contact through Flintshire Record Office

BTJ91.jpg Organ.
(taken 25.8.2010)
photograph

BTJ93.jpg Parish chest, 1735.
(taken 25.8.2010)
photograph

BTJ94.jpg Parish chest, 1735.
(taken 25.8.2010)
photograph

BVS18.jpg Font, 15th century.
(taken 24.11.2011)
photograph

BTJ89.jpg Clock dial, and motto:-
"WATCH FOR YE KNOW NOT THE HOUR" (taken 25.8.2010)
photograph

CEJ69.jpg Bier.
(taken 20.11.2015)
photograph

BTK04.jpg Grave stone:-
"In Memory of / John Atkinson / Slate Merchant of / Broughton who departed / this Life the 7th July 1703 / Proprietor of the Slate / Quarries at Seathwaite, / Dunerdale, Ulpha, / Kirkby and / Tilberthwaite." (taken 25.8.2010)
photograph

BXD59.jpg Norman door arch.
(taken 24.8.2012)
photograph

BJR53.jpg Scratch marks on the door pillar are said to be the marks of sharpening arrows in medieval times. (We've heard that romantic tale before.)
(taken 5.8.2005)
photograph

BXD60.jpg Notice, about repairs 1759?
(taken 24.8.2012)
photograph

BXD61.jpg Notice, about repairs 1759?
(taken 24.8.2012)

notes:-

The doorway to the church is Norman. The church was extended in the 16th and 18th centuries; and greatly restored in the 19th century.

: 2002: church leaflet

Paley and Austin series

person:-

architect
: Paley, Edward G

person:-

architect
: Austin, Hubert J

date:-

1874

Restoration work on chancel and nave, and a new aisle.

Paley and Austin series

person:-

architect
: Austin, Hubert J

person:-

architect
: Paley, Henry A

date:-

1900

New tower at SW.

dedication

person:-

: St Mary Magdalene

place:-

Broughton and Duddon / Carlisle Diocese

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