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St Cuthbert, Plumbland
St Cuthbert's Church
Plumbland Church
locality:-   Parsonby
civil parish:-   Plumbland (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY14153922
1Km square:-   NY1439
10Km square:-   NY13
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BOT96.jpg (taken 14.3.2008)  
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CBW12.jpg (taken 10.10.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 36 13) 
placename:-  St Cuthbert'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. Cuthbert's Church (Rectory) / Grave Yard"

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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NUR1NY13.jpg
"PLUMBLAND"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Cuthbert
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT / / / PLUMBLAND / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 411792 / NY1415339223"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish church. 1871 by J.A. Cory (in partnership with C.J. Ferguson), on medieval site and incorporating some medieval features. Hammer-dressed St Bees and calciferous sandstone with ashlar quoins, buttresses and string course. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finials. 4-bay nave with aisles, north organ chamber and 3-storey tower/porch. 2-bay chancel with north vestry. Nave has 3 gabled dormer clerestory windows and paired-lancet aisle windows. Tower has south doorway, and east side window which is C13 and reused from original church. Chancel has paired lancet windows and traceried east window. Interior: 4-bay north arcade and 3-bay south arcade with pointed arches of alternate red and yellow sandstone on round columns. Re-used zigzag Norman chancel arch. Unsigned late C19 and early C20 stained glass. 1684 wall plaque to Farish family and Reverend Edward Stanley, 1834. Chancel has late C19 stained glass and wall plaques to Ballantine-Dykes family. C19 piscina, the medieval one now in the vestry. Vestry doorway is C13 re-used."

evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  hogback gravestone
source data:-   Under a yew tree in the churchyard:-
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CV1134.jpg
Photograph by W L Fletcher. 
On the churchyard wall: 
... a coped stone, 56x10x7 ins, ornamented with semicircles ... perhaps a hogback? 
item:-  JandMN : 190
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  cross
source data:-   In the church:-
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CV1090.jpg
Lithograph by W S Calverley. 
item:-  JandMN : 190
Image © see bottom of page

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3 cross slab grave covers; inside tower, 1st floor.
Inaccessible.

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

incumbents:-  
Cospatric  1173 -  
Aencourt, Walter de  1310 -  
Aencourt, Peter de  1310 -  
Aencourt, Thomas de  1324 -  
Arkleby, Alan de  1350 -  
Dykes, John  1455 -  
Porter, John  1545 -  
Potter, William  1545 -  
Walles, Lancelot  1562 -  
Richardby, William  1568 -  
Fletcher, Lancelot  1628 -  
Eaglesfield, Gawin  1648 -  
Nicholson, Joseph  1662 -  
Robinson, Michael  1686 -  
Thompson, Gustavus  1702 -  
Farish, Peter  1711 -  
Leathes, Thomas  1729 -  
Askew, Adam  1760 -  
Bird, John  1788 -  
Stanley, Edward  1802 -  
Curwen, John  1834 -  
Wordsworth, John  1840 -  
Curwen, Edward Hasell  1875 -  


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BOU02.jpg  Chancel arch:-
"I WILL WASH MY HANDS IN INNOCENCY O LORD AND SO WILL I GO TO THINE ALTAR" (taken 14.3.2008)  
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BOU04.jpg  Organ.
(taken 14.3.2008)  
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CBW17.jpg  List of charges.
(taken 14.3.2008)  
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CBW13.jpg  Memorial, Sara Farish, died 1684.
(taken 10.10.2014)  
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CBW14.jpg  Memorial, Frecheville Dykes, died 1866, and his son.
(taken 10.10.2014)  
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CBW15.jpg  Coat of arms, Dykes Family
(taken 10.10.2014)  
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CBW16.jpg  War memorial.
(taken 10.10.2014)  
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BOT98.jpg  Hogback gravestone, about 980, a Viking hall, note the roof shingles, and an entwined serpent; cut up and used for building about 1220.
(taken 14.3.2008)  
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BOT99.jpg  Hogback gravestone, about 980; cut up and used for building about 1220.
(taken 14.3.2008)  
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BOU05.jpg  Vestry door, an apt inscription:-
"LET THY PRIESTS BE CLOTHED WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS" (taken 14.3.2008)  
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BOT97.jpg (taken 14.3.2008)  
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BOU06.jpg  An ancient yew.
(taken 14.3.2008)  

notes:-  
There was possibly a church here in saxon times; a church was built in 1130; the present building was erected 1871.

dedication
person:-    : St Cuthbert
place:-   Plumbland / Carlisle Diocese

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