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church, Haile
Haile Parish Church
Haile Church
locality:-   Haile
civil parish:-   Haile (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY03040881
1Km square:-   NY0308
10Km square:-   NY00

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BVL53.jpg (taken 7.10.2011)  
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BVL54.jpg (taken 7.10.2011)  
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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church at Hail 
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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"HAILE"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

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CDW41.jpg (taken 6.9.2015)  
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BVL55.jpg (taken 7.10.2011)  
It is possible to read:-
"RECAST 1913 / LAUS DEO / [ ] J.R.S."
 stained glass
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Haile Church
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HAILE CHURCH (NO DEDICATION) / / / HAILE / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76320 / NY0304108815"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. C18 with earlier fragments, C19 porch probably by Ferguson, 1882. Stone rubble with dressed stone and roughcast to south and west, slate roof. Single vessel nave and chancel with lean-to west porch. 3-bay nave and narrower single-bay chancel have round-headed windows with large voussoirs and leaded glazing. Plain cornice and coped gables with kneelers; east gable cross and west gabled bellcote with 2 round-headed openings. Porch has 2 single-chamfered mullioned windows of 3 and 2 lights, entrance to north has moulded reveals. Some C18 headstones to south wall, headstone to west wall, John Ponsonby (died 1678) has good naive inscription. South-east angle of nave has fragment of Anglo-Danish cross shaft as quoin. Interior not inspected."
evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  cross
source data:-   In the church (or perhaps in a church in Haile itself?)
In the vestry wall:- 
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Sketch by W G Collingwood. 
Lost fragments:- 
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CV1110.jpg
Copied from Canon Knowles. 
In the church wall, south side, outside:- 
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CV1111.jpg
Sketch by W G Collingwood. 
item:-  JandMN : 190
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old drawing:- 
item:-  cross
source data:-   Drawing, Fragment of Spiral Cross, church at Haile, Cumberland, by William Gershom Collingwood, 1899.
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Sketch of a square stone, the remains of a cross shaft, with carved spiral decoration. 
Drawn to illustrate Notes on the Early Sculptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carlisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, published by T Wilson, Kendal 1899; on p.182. 
inscribed at bottom centre:-  "Fragment of 'spiral' cross; Haile"
initialled &dated at bottom right:-  "W.G.C. 1899"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1902.18.16
Image © Tullie House Museum
incumbents:-  
Wilson, William  1658 -  
Parker, John  1708 -  
Thompson, Joseph  1718 -  
Cannel, George  1722 -  
Reay, Stephen  1757 -  
Stockdale, William  1761 -  
Myers, Daniel  1763 -  
Cannel, George  1767 -  
Tyson, Thomas  1767 -  
Greene, William  1773 -  
Southward, Joshua  1777 -  
Dunn, Martin  1779 -  
Gilbanks, John C  1783 -  
Grayson, Isaac  1785 -  
Stephenson, Thomas  1791 -  
Fullerton, Joseph  1794 -  
Lindow, John  1799 -  
Bragg, Henry  1802 -  
Poole, Richard  1803 -  
Smith, John  1806 -  
Barnes, John  1809 -  
Danson, Peter  1810 -  
Jameson, Thomas  1813 -  
Kitchen, Isaac  1814 -  
Brown, Abram  1817 -  
Brown, William D  1822 -  
Bellas, William  1837 -  
Viccars, John  1839 -  
Fox, John  1843 -  
Pratten, Sydney W  1861 -  
Webster, Robert  1878 -  
Bateman, J H L  1884 -  
Cooper, A H  1887 -  
Steele, J  1910 -  

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CDW38.jpg  Organ.
(taken 6.9.2015)  
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CDW39.jpg "MODEL B MINOR / SOLWAY ORGANS / KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE" (taken 6.9.2015)  
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CDW40.jpg  Organ.
(taken 6.9.2015)  
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BVL61.jpg  Mothers Union banner.
(taken 7.10.2011)  
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BVL58.jpg  Coat of arms, Henry Ponsonby, 1868 or 1886, screen by door.
(taken 7.10.2011)  
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CDW37.jpg  Memorial, Miles Ponsonby, died 1814.
(taken 7.10.2011)  
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BVL59.jpg  Coat of arms, Miles Ponsonby, died 1814.
(taken 7.10.2011)  
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BWK08.jpg  War memorial.
(taken 16.5.2012)  
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BVL56.jpg  Gravestone:-
"LEARN READER UNDER THIS STONE DOTH LYE A RARE EXAMPLE CALD JOHN PONSONBYE IF I SAID [ ]YLESE I AM SURE I LYD HE WAS A FAITHFUL FREIND AND SOE HE DYD NOVEMBER [25] IN THE [ ] YEAR [187 ]" (taken 7.10.2011)  
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BVL63.jpg  Gate.
(taken 7.10.2011)  
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BVL67.jpg (taken 7.10.2011)  

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BWK07.jpg (taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK05.jpg (taken 16.5.2012)  
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BWK06.jpg (taken 16.5.2012)  
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