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chapel, Firbank
Firbank Church
site name:-   Firbank Fell
civil parish:-   Firbank (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   chapel
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   SD61909373
1Km square:-   SD6193
10Km square:-   SD69


photograph
BJQ90.jpg (taken 24.7.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 39 4) 
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 (Site of) / Grave Yard"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5SD69SW.jpg
"Chapel"
church 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GRAVEYARD BOUNDARY WALLS TO ORIGINAL PARISH CHURCH / / / FIRBANK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75652 / SD6189293744"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Graveyard walls. Date uncertain, possibly pre-Reformation, recorded in mid C17, church demolished in 1830s. Dry stone walls enclosing area approx. 31m square. Entrance to west side. Some gravestones with early C19 dates. To south-east is Fox's pulpit, which George Fox preached for 3 hours to approx. 1,000 Seekers (forerunners of the Society of Friends) on 13 June 1652. The meeting led to the formation of the Society of Friends (Quakers)."

:-  
Site of a chapel on Firbank Fell. This was destroyed in a storm, winter 1839-40. A few grave stones remain in the enclosure.

Rooksby, Donald A: 1998: And Sometime Upon the Hills::: ISBN 0 9523548 2 9

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