The Church of Grasmere

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Mary L. Armitt. The Church of Grasmere

The Church of Grasmere

Table of Contents

EDITOR'S PREFACE

THE CHURCH OF GRASMERE

PART I

PREFACE

INTRODUCTORY

THE DEDICATION

THE SITE

PART II

THE PARISH

BOUNDARIES

THE TOWNSHIPS

SOME LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE CHURCH

THE EIGHTEEN

PART III

RECORDS

THE PATRONS

MONASTIC CONTROL

THE CLERGY

THE CIVIL WARS

THE COMMONWEALTH

PART IV

THE FABRIC

THE FURNITURE

THE UPKEEP OF THE CHURCH

CLEANING AND REPAIRS

EXTRACTS FROM CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS AND PRESENTMENTS

PART V

LATER PARSONS OF GRASMERE

AMBLESIDE CHAPEL

AMBLESIDE CURATES

LANGDALE CURATES

SCHOOL AND CLERKS

THE CHURCH RATES

NON-RATEPAYERS

THE REGISTERS

PRESENTMENTS, BRIEFS, AND CHARITIES

THE RUSHBEARING

APPENDIX

INDEX

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Mary L. Armitt

A History

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This manorial centre was united to the high line of road on the other side of the valley by several ways. One, a footpath, still passes hard by Kirk How, a now disused smithy being upon it. Two others approach and meet to cross Raise Beck together by White Bridge, the name indicative of a stone fabric at a time when timber was commoner. Here the village pinfold still stands.

What more natural than that the church should be added to this central group, and at a time perhaps when enlarged space and entire rebuilding of an existing edifice required to be done? The site by the river would afford deep soil for burial. To such a change of site (supposing it were made) there would naturally be opposition from some quarter; whence the tradition.

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