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chapel, Garrigill
Garrigill Chapel
locality:-   Garrigill
civil parish:-   Alston Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   chapel (disused) 
coordinates:-   NY73894177
1Km square:-   NY7341
10Km square:-   NY74


photograph
BSJ45.jpg (taken 26.3.2010)  
photograph
BML43.jpg (taken 29.7.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 42 5) 
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.
"Independent Chapel"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Congregational Chapel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL / / REDWING / ALSTON MOOR / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73139 / NY7389841777"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Congregational Chapel, made redundant c1977; dated 1756 on door lintel. Coursed squared rubble with quoins. Graduated stone-flag. Later lean-to added at west end. Single-storey; chamfered surround with dated lintel to plank door in centre of east wall. South side has 4 windows with semicircular heads and cavetto moulding to surrounds; external hinge-pins for shutters remain but windows now (1983) boarded over. No openings on north side. Previous list (1951) describes interior as retaining original reading desk and box pews;"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCHYARD WALLS AND WOODEN GATE TO CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL / / REDWING / ALSTON MOOR / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73140 / NY7390741798"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Drystone wall c4 ft high with semicircular coping. C20 wooden gate to centre of east wall. Included for group value."

evidence:-   perhaps old print:- Wallace 1890
item:-  
source data:-   Print, lithograph, The Independent Chapel, Alston Moor, from a photograph by T Bramwell, Alston, published by Mawson, Swan and Morgan, Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, 1890
image  click to enlarge
WC0205.jpg
Tipped in opposite p.71 in Alston Moor, its Pastoral People, its Mines and Miners. 
printed at bottom:-  "T. Bramwell / Photor. Alston. / INDEPENDENT CHAPEL."
item:-  private collection : 160.6
Image © see bottom of page

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