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St Mary, Cumwhitton
St Mary's Church
Cumwhitton Church
locality:-   Cumwhitton
civil parish:-   Cumwhitton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY50625225
1Km square:-   NY5052
10Km square:-   NY55
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


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BYY53.jpg (taken 2.8.2013)  
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BOD37.jpg (taken 7.9.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 16) 
placename:-  St Mary'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 Mary's Church (Per Curacy) / 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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NUR1NY55.jpg
"CUMWHITTON"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

 notes about bells

 stained glass

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St Mary
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST MARY / / / CUMWHITTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 78015 / NY5062652252"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Church. Partly C12, rebuilt early C19. Dressed and rubble red sandstone walls on chamfered plinth and with raised quoins; sandstone and with slate roof. Slender 3-storey west square tower/porch; 3-bay nave has north aisle; 2-bay chancel has north vestry. Early C19 tower has plank doors and semicircular fanlight with intersecting tracery: external stone steps to side door to ringing chamber: clock to west face: pyramidal roof has weather vane dated 1961. Nave has partly medieval walls: filled south door has C19 window with round head, reused zigzag decorated stone to left: former square headed window right now with round head. Wall sundial; small C19 circular window to right. North aisle has 2 C19 smallround-headed windows with earlier window to left. Chancel has small pointed lancet to north wall and tripartite C19 east window; lower courses are probably medieval. Interior: aisle arcade of 3 bays has C12 round columns and arches; plain octagonal bowl font is dated 1662. Fittings and furnishings are late C19 or early C20. Stained glass window by L.C. Evetts, 1962."

evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  cross
source data:-   Cross head of red sandstone.

 sundial


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BYY62.jpg  Norman archaes.
(taken 2.8.2013)  
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BYY60.jpg  Two decker pulpit
(taken 2.8.2013)  
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BOD35.jpg  Two decker pulpit
(taken 7.9.2007)  
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BYY61.jpg  Pitch pipe, made by Jospeh Rook, violin maker, late 18th century.
(taken 2.8.2013)  
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BPH08.jpg  Carved pew rail:-
"RF MF IF 1700" Fisher Family of Nunfield.
(taken 7.9.2007)  
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BOD36.jpg  Head of a cross.
(taken 7.9.2007)  
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BPH07.jpg  Coat of arms on a gravestone for Edward Fisher of Faugh, d.1840.
(taken 7.9.2007)  
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BYY66.jpg  Piece of norman stonework.
(taken 2.8.2013)  
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BYY67.jpg (taken 2.8.2013)  
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BYY68.jpg  Weathervane.
(taken 2.8.2013)  
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BYY54.jpg  Church gate.
(taken 2.8.2013)  
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BYY55.jpg  Church gate; plaque:-
"1887 IF 1950" (taken 7.9.2007)  
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BYY56.jpg  Church gate; plaque:-
"1910 JTF 1954" (taken 2.8.2013)  
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BYY57.jpg (taken 2.8.2013)  
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BOD30.jpg  The house is Church Cottage.
(taken 7.9.2007)  


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CAW85.jpg (taken 6.6.2014)  

notes:-  
The first stone building was probably built in the early 12th century, there may have been an earlier wooden church, The earliest record is in a Valor of Pope Nicholas IV, dated 1291. Apart from repairs in earlier times a major reconstruction was made in the early 19th century, after the tower collapsed.

Vesey, Norman A: 2006 (reprint) &1958: Parish Church of St Mary, Cumwhitton, Cumbria

notes:-  
The clock is a war memorial to those who fell in World War I.

dedication
person:-    : St Mary
place:-   Cumwhitton / Carlisle Diocese

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