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Bolton,
Solway,
All Saints |
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Crosscanonby,
St John the
Evangelist |
Carved gallery 1730, and older carving in pews.
Incorporates older Roman and pre-Norman stonework. Thankfully it was carefully
restored in 1880. (CEPC) |
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Crossthwaite,
St Kentigern |
Present church probably dates from 1553, but some
older work incorporated. 18th C. pitchpipe. |
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Edenhall,
dedication
unknown |
17th C. west gallery. |
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Matterdale,
No dedication |
Built 1685, restored 1856. Canopied pulpit. |
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Millom,
Holy Trinity |
Church has tall Norman doorway and Norman piers
in the nave. Chancel mainly 15th C. Oval window at west end called the Fish
Window. "Nave has a black-and-white timbered roof into which the organ in the
old gallery seems to merge". (CEPC) |
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Mungrisdale,
St Kentigern |
St Kentigern's Church in the
village of Mungrisdale was
rebuilt in 1756 on
the site of an earlier medieval church.
The church was restored in 1925. It is said that the first
church on this site was founded by St. Kentigern himself in
c.552 AD.
St Kentigern's Church is a Grade II* listed building on the
National Heritage List for England, and
is one of the smallest churches in the
district.
The old box pews have been made into ordinary wooden
pews, but some high sides remain.
There is a panelled double-decker pulpit
which seems to be the upper parts of a triple decker.
See pictures of the church, both interior and exterior at
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Penrith,
dedication
unknown |
The church has a
panelled gallery. (AM) |
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Whitehaven,
dedication
unknown |
Church dates from 1752/53
and has galleries on three sides. |
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Wigton,
St
Mary the Virgin |
NY256483. |
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Churches which are known to have had west
gallery features or connections |
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Hawkshead,
Dedication unknown |
In 1711 Joseph Keen was paid £2 2s for
"workmanship in Church" - he was employed for about seven weeks. References to
a shaped beam and 18 joists were probably for a west gallery. The 1721 accounts
include 1s for "Jamers [hinges] and hanglock at stairs head", presumably
gallery stairs. In 1794-5 new pews included at the west end one for
churchwardens and three for the psalm-singers.
An organ was bought in
1828, then replaced later in the C19th. The restoration of 1875-6 removed both
organ and gallery. The church has a pitch-pipe dated 1764, which was made by
Isaac Holme, a local joiner, who died in 1789 aged 53. He was paid 7s 6d for
the pipe, which has ten notes from C to E and was used until 1828 to give the
keynote for the psalms. |
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Holme Cultram, Abbey
Town,
St
Mary |
85:
NY 176508.
Fragment of old Cistercian abbey.
Disasterously set on fire by arsonist in
and now restored, removing nearly all trace of previous
fittings.
In 1730
agreement was reached between the Churchwardens and Richard Smirke of
Wigton,
house-carpenter, to set up all pews, galleries and other works in the church,
using wood from Wedholme and "to work all wood to the best advantage as to make
no waste" etc. "All chips and shavings to be at the Churchwarden's disposal . .
. " The cost as £37. Francis Grainger was a
Trustee for the rebuilding work at that time.
When the work was completed Dr. Waugh
described it as " . . . neatly and conveniently seated, with handsome
galleries, and it is altogether a beautiful church, but though it stands high,
strangely damp. It contains seats for 864 persons."
(The
Register and Records of Holme Cultram, CWA&AS Record Series Vol. viii, by
Francis Granger and W G Collingwood, Kendal, 1929)
Francis Granger's family were very much involved with the rebuilding of the
church, and also sang or played in the quire that used the west gallery. -
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