Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Mary, Wigton

St Mary, Wigton

St Mary's Church

Wigton Church

locality:-

Wigton

civil parish:-

Wigton (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY25594827

1Km square:-

NY2548

10Km square:-

NY24

references:-

: 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

BNN89.jpg (taken 11.4.2007)
photograph

BNN90.jpg (taken 11.4.2007)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 29 5)
placename:- St Mary'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. Mary's Church (Vicarage) / Grave Yard"

evidence:-

old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)

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 186:- "..."
"... Dr. Burn says the parish church is a very old building, which seems never to have been rebuilt since the time of Odaard de Loriz its antient lord,who in the Chronicon Cumbriae is said to have built it."

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.

NUR1NY24.jpg
"WIGTON"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

stained glass

evidence:-

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

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY / / HIGH STREET / WIGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 72021 / NY2559948273"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church on medieval site. Dated and inscribed in porch 1788, PATTINSON AND HOLMES JOINERS, NIXONS AND PARKIN MASONS, built to the same design as St Michael's, Workington, 1770 and St Cuthbert's, Carlisle, 1778; restoration 1881 (dated in porch) by C.J. Ferguson; vestry dated 1912. Red sandstone from Shawk Quarry, with V-jointed quoins, on chamfered plinth; string course, eaves cornice and parapet. Graduated greenslate roof. 2-storey, 8-bay nave; 3-storey west tower/porch; north vestry; lower single-bay chancel. Tower: panelled west door under intersecting-glazing bar fanlight in quoined surround. Similar treatment to casement window above. Round window above with patterned glazing bars. Large painted clock face with modillioned surround. Round-headed bell openings with louvred vents. Modillioned battlemented parapet with pinnacles. Nave: south panelled doors in round-headed quoined surrounds flank round-headed leaded-paned windows, some with stained glass. Similar gallery windows above. Venetian east window in chancel. Interior: Tuscan and Doric columned gallery, upper columns with individual entablature. Ceiling with decorative oval and circular-moulded plaster panels. Early C20 baptistery with carved oak screen. Numerous white marble wall plaques. Late C19 and early C20 stained glass. Side chapel has reredos made of re-used Flemish carved oak panels. 3-decker pulpit. OS bench mark on quoin stone left of entrance."

ring of bells

incumbents:-

Dalilegh, James de	1308 -
Hilton, William de	1317 -
Stayngrave, Adam de
Wiggeton, Gilbert de	1332 -
Appleby, Henry de	1336 -
Cullerdane, Thomas de
Aslackby, Richard de	1359 -
Cressop, William de
Damysell, Ricard	1367 -
Hayton, William de	1368 -
Welton, John de	1369 -
King, John
Lowden, William
Lowson, William	1592 - 1612
Warcop, Thomas	1612 - 1649
Chambers, John	1661 - 1674
Geddes, Henry	1674 - 1714
Brown, John	1715 - 1763
Clarke, Wilfred	1763 - 1802
Clarke, Wilfred	1802 - 1804
Dodd, John	1804 - 1826
Irthing, Jonathan	1826 - 1857
Lyde, William	1857 - 1870
Schnibben, William Mangles	1870 - 1880
Kayss, John Bainbridge	1880 - 1905
Mayall, Reginald	1905 - 1910
Salusbury, Norman	1910 - 1921

BNN91.jpg Coat of arms, Elizabeth II?
(taken 11.4.2007)
photograph

BRB22.jpg Organ.
(taken 10.7.2009)
photograph

BYW35.jpg Mothers Union banner.
(taken 27.7.2013)
photograph

CCO98.jpg Parish chest.
(taken 27.7.2013)
photograph

CCO99.jpg Parish chest, one of the three locks.
(taken 27.7.2013)
photograph

BYW33.jpg List of charities and donations.
(taken 27.7.2013)
photograph

BYW34.jpg List of charities and donations.
(taken 27.7.2013)
photograph

BNN92.jpg Stone inscribed with some of the builders' names:-
"PATTINSON. and HOLMES / JOINERS. / NIXONS. and PARKIN. MASONS. / 1788" (taken 11.4.2007)

notes:-

The first church was built by Odard de Logis in the 12th century. It was badly damaged by the Scots in a border raid about 1330, so a pele tower was added to make it a fortified church. The church was rebuilt about 1785, nothing of the old church being incorporated, by order of the churchwardens. There have been various restorations.

Reay, John: 2004 (2nd end) &1996: Short History of the Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin Wigton

notes:-

The 18th century church is built on the site of a 14th century church with a fortified tower

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; illustration

dedication

person:-

: St Mary

place:-

Wigton / Carlisle Diocese

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