The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Cumbria (now)
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St Mary’s church is a small, two-celled structure with an early chancel arch, baptismal font and added S arcade with two arches. Post medieval additions to the church include S and E chancel windows, which appear to date from the 16thc and a bellcote of 1724. The chancel seems also to have been extended at an uncertain date. The church was restored in 1878 and a new vestry added in 1888.
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The present church is of 18thc date, but two loose beakhead voussoirs are preserved inside the W tower. Two medieval grave covers have been found in excavations to the N of the church. One has been reburied, but the other, in two pieces, is kept inside the N porch. N of the church are ruins of a small Gilbertine priory.
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Inside the W tower of St Mary's Church, Harrington are two stones and a doorway which have been said to date from the 12th century. One is a capital, another a grave cover and the third parts of a later-widened doorway. The base of the W tower may also date from this period, but there are no diagnostic features. The rest of the church is later, rebuilt in 1634 and again in 1884-5. In 1860, prior to the extensive rebuild some 25 years later, the church was described as 'consisting of nave and chancel, with square western tower' (Wellan, p. 395). The W tower was re-built in 1905-7. After the Reformation, the advowson of the church was given to Robert Brokelsbye and Thomas Dalston. About 1564 the advowson and right of patronage passed to Henry Curwen. Thereafter, it continued to remain in the Curwen family. The town centre of Harrington is now based on the port of Harrington, but this was not the case in the medieval period, as the port and town were built after 1760. St Mary's Church is sited further away from this, in the area sometimes referred to as 'High Harrington'.
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The church is of of rectangular plan, with a bell-gable at the W end, a N transept and a N vestry. There is a S doorway off the nave (thought to be of 12thc. date), with a porch in front of it. There had also been a N doorway, found in the early 20thc., but this was walled up and plastered over. In 1858 the N transept and new windows were added and various repairs on the church undertaken. In 1901-2, further repairs were carried out, the vestry added, and three new windows installed in the nave.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the patronage of Whicham Church was in the hands of Hugh Askew. After his death, his widow married one of the Penningtons of Muncaster. In 1717, it was held by the Penningtons, but later it was soled to Lord Lonsdale.
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The church of St Michael is sometimes listed under Glassonby and sometimes under Addingham, as the medieval church of Addingham was destroyed by the River Eden at an unknown date, and a new church built closer to the village of Glassonby, probably in the 16thC. but registers of the church go back only to 1602. The village of Addingham, itself, no longer exists. There are older carved stones used in the church structure which are thought to have come from the earlier church. Alterations were made in 1786 and 1898. In 1786, it was decided that a W porch be built and the N doorway filled in. The roof of the vestry was raised in 1898. Possibly at the same time, but almost certainly after 1840, the S porch was built, forming a new entrance into the church. This was likely carried out when the 18thC. W porch was taken down. Built into the S porch gable is a voussoir carved with chevron, and built into the N gable of the vestry is a voussoir carved with beakhead. These are the only known stones of Romanesque form. A number of Anglo-Saxon stones survive, most of which are known to have been recovered nearby from the River Eden and its bank.
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The church of St Mary is of dressed and rubble sandstone and comprises a W tower, nave with N aisle, and chancel with N vestry. Little of the 12thc church remains. Repairs were undertaken in the 17thc and the baptismal font is dated 1662, but the church was largely rebuilt in the early 19thc. A chevron voussoir remains built into the exterior of the south wall of the nave and the head of a cross, decorated on one side, is kept inside the church.
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Dalston is situated about four miles S of Carlisle, and the church is located in the village square. The church of St Michael consists of a nave, chancel and small transept on the S side. In 1923, Collingwood wrote that the lower courses of the church of St Michael’s were of 12thc date and that the chancel was 13thc. The church was partly rebuilt in 1749 and restorations on the chancel carried out in 1873. In 1890, the nave was restored and a N porch added.
Surviving from the 12thc is a single capital, now built into an interior wall in the former N porch (now a toilet facility).
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The present church consists of a square-ended chancel and a nave with a S aisle and a S porch. Over the chancel arch is a double bellcote, and N of the chancel a vestry. It is thought that the lower courses of the N nave wall may be 12thc, but the church was re-built in the 13thc and again in the 14thc. There were 14thc, 15thc, 16thc and 17thc changes to the structure, and renovations were carried out in 1967 to 1973, including a vestry. The earliest surviving carved work in the church is the 12thc bowl of the baptismal font.
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Dentdale, which is nine miles long, has scattered farms but only one village, Dent. The town of Sedbergh is the outlet to the west. During the 19thc, Dent ‘marble’ was produced from quarries at the head of the dale, and three kinds are used in the chancel, with and without fossils.
The church stands in the core of the compact, stone-built village. It has a west tower which was rebuilt in the 18thc, apparently occasioned by dilapidation and an earthquake (Boulton 1995, 12-13). Its plan is common in the north-west of the county, a continuous six-bay nave and chancel both with aisles, and no chancel arch – although the third piers from the east are enlarged on the inner faces and may hint at an earlier one. The building was much renewed in 1889-90 (Pevsner 1967, 177-78; Leach and Pevsner 2009, 238-9).
Piers 1 to 3 are octagonal, but the two western piers (piers 4 and 5) of the arcades are round; some of their fabric may be 12thc, but re-used. The only feature certainly relevant to the Corpus is the nave N doorway.
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Situated in the former ward of Allerdale below Derwent, Caldbeck is located on the Caldbeck River, which flows into the Caldew and onwards into the Eden River, which then empties into the Solway. Dedicated to St Kentigern, the church consists of a rectangular aisled nave, with a rectangular chancel. This chancel, built off of the east end of the church, has a width equal to the central space of the nave. On the interior side of the S wall of this is part of an early window. A chantry was built off the S side of the chancel in the early-16thC. and is now used as the vestry. At the W end of the church is a tower. A stone porch in front of the S nave doorway contains re-used Romanesque carved stones. 12thC. stones have also been built into the W interior nave wall. Kept inside the church are a few loose voussoirs, similar in detail to those found in certain other Romanesque churches. Later building works on the church are known to have occurred in the early 16thC, early 18thC., 1880 and 1932-3.