Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St Michael, Shap

St Michael, Shap

St Michael's Church

Shap Church

locality:-

Shap

civil parish:-

Shap (formerly Westmorland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

church

coordinates:-

NY56381534

1Km square:-

NY5615

10Km square:-

NY51

BQZ19.jpg (taken 6.7.2009)
photograph

CAB48.jpg (taken 14.3.2014)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 14)
placename:- St Michael'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. Michael's Church

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.

J5NY51NE.jpg
church
item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-

old map:- Baker 1802

source data:-

Perspective road maps with sections in Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland, by J Baker, London 1802.

Bk03Vg10.jpg
item:- private collection : 3
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.

NUR1NY51.jpg
"SHAP WITH SWINDALE"
item:- JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936

source data:-

Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Parish Church of St Michael, Shap, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290? published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.

click to enlarge
HMW121.jpg
On p.204 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland.
RCHME no. Wmd, Shap 1
item:- Armitt Library : A745.122
Image © see bottom of page

stained glass

evidence:-

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

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL / / JACKSON'S LANE / SHAP / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74158 / NY5639215338"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church. Probably dates from C12. Later additions and alterations: C13 side aisle; 1765 chancel rebuilt; 1828 west tower rebuilt; 1898-9 extensive restoration with north vestry and chancel rebuilt and south chapel added (datestone on south side). Ashlar and snecked rubble on chamfered plinth with stepped buttreses. Graduated slate roofs with stone copings and apex crosses. West tower, nave with south aisle, chancel with south chapel and north vestry. 2-stage tower with C19 double doors in surround with 4-centred head; louvred openings to 2nd stage; parapet castellated. 4-bay nave (extended to form baptistry on south side) and 2-bay chancel. Windows mainly multi-light (some original C16); single-light window to each end of north nave elevation. Interior: South arcade of 4 semicircular arches carried between stone columns with moulded plinths and capitals. 1899 carved wooden pulpit in north-east corner of nave. Re-used C17 cownunion rail with turned balusters. Octagonal stone pillar font at east end of south aisle presented by Mrs Bindloss in 1880; cylindrical polished granite font at west end of south aisle presented by Shap Granite Co. in 1899. Some early C20 glass."

evidence:-

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"NORTH ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS TO ST MICHAEL'S CHURCHYARD / / JACKSON'S LANE / SHAP / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74159 / NY5638415375"

source data:-

courtesy of English Heritage
"Churchyard entrance; probably C19. Ashlar gate piers on moulded plinths; square in plan, c.9 ft high with cornice and domical ogee caps. Wrought-iron double gates with knopped rod standards; side gate to right replaced."

ring of bells

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

CAB54.jpg Organ.
(taken 14.3.2013)
photograph

CAB55.jpg Mothers Union banner.
(taken 14.3.2013)
photograph

CAB56.jpg Font, Shap granite - what else!
(taken 14.3.2013)
photograph

BQZ14.jpg (taken 6.7.2009)
photograph

BJZ82.jpg (taken 11.11.2005)

CAB47.jpg Gravestone:-
"Sacred TO THE Memory OF the / Workmen who lost their lives by accidents / during the progress of the Work on the / Shap District of the Lancaster / and Carlisle Railway / and whose names are to be / found in the Parish register Books" "Like crowded forest trees we stand / And some are marked to fall / The axe will smite at God's Command / And soon shall smite us all" "No present health can life ensure / For yet an hour to come / No human power our life secure / And save us from the tomb/" "Sept. 1846" (taken 14.3.2014)
photograph

BQZ18.jpg Gravestone:-
"SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / GEORGE DITCHFIELD, Storekeeper on the / Lancaster &Carlisle Railway, / who departed this Life on the 9th / of April, 1847. Aged 32." (taken 6.7.2009)

notes:-

It is said that a sanctuary was built here about 750. A church was built in 1150; the first incumbent was recorded in 1263-65. A new chancel was built in 1765, using stones from Shap Abbey; a new tower was built in 1829; a wholesale restoration was made in 1892-99.

: : church leaflet

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