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St Peter, Camerton
St Peter's Church
Camerton Church
civil parish:-   Camerton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY03563006
1Km square:-   NY0330
10Km square:-   NY03
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BNR06.jpg (taken 14.5.2007)  
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CHA46.jpg (taken 22.2.2018)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 53 8) 
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"

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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D4NY03SW.jpg
church by Cammerton Hall 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

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.
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NUR1NY03.jpg
"CAMERTON WITH ST. PAUL'S SEATON"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

notes:-  
When the tower was added, 1855, a bell was bought. It is inscibed:-
"[Pat Murphy Ironfounder, Dublin, 1855]"
It was sent by sea to Maryport, and then by cart.

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Peter
item:-  ; ?datestone
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST PETER / / / CAMERTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72226 / NY0355130058"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church. 1694 and 1796 with 1855 tower, on medieval site. Roughcast walls with tower of calciferous sandstone rubble with angle buttresses. Graduated greenslate roof. 3-bay nave with square west tower/porch and south chapel; single-bay chancel. Tower has West door in chamfered pointed arch under lancet windows and quatrefoil bell openings; short octagonal spire. Nave has 2-light plate-tracery windows. Chancel has 2 small trefoil-headed windows, one in east wall, and 3-light east window. Interior has plain plaster walls and ceiling with numerous C19 wall plaques. 1510 effigy of Knight Thomas Curwen (Black Tom). Wooden panel removed from Camerton Hall is dated 1625 and inscribed B.C. H.C. (Henry &Bridget Curwen), otherwise all late C19 woodwork."

 memorials

 Black Tom of the North memorial

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2 cross slab grave covers.

Ryder, Peter: 2001: Cross Slab Grave Covers of Cumbria: Cumbria CC (Carlisle, Cumbria)


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CHA58.jpg  Collection ladles.
(taken 22.2.2018)  
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CHA48.jpg  Lintel:-
"REBUILT / 1633 1794 1892" (taken 22.2.2018)  
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CHA49.jpg  Date stone, possibly a re-used date stone, now in the floor:-
"IA 1644" (taken 22.2.2018)  
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BNR07.jpg (taken 14.5.2007)  


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CHA62.jpg  Armorial panel.
"BC 1625 HC" (taken 22.2.2018)  
quarterly 1 and 4 Curwen Family of Camerton 2 Redmans Family of Levens Hall 3 Sandys Family impaling quarterly 1 and 4 Brockhole Family of Claughton, Lancashire 2 and 3 perhaps Heaton Family, Lancashire

notes:-  
There is believed to have been a church here about 620, probably a wooden building, replaced by stone about 1000, rebuilt 1633? There was a new building in 1794, and restoration in 1855 when a tower was added. The tower was not bonded to the older building, which has caused a lot of trouble since.

:: church leaflet

dedication
person:-    : St Peter
place:-   Camerton / Carlisle Diocese

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