Urswick / Great Urswick / Hursewic, Ursewic / Ursewyk / Urswic

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/864726] [accessed 8 April 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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view of church exterior - west portal

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the two fonts are visible here; in the foregorund is the restored late medieval hexagonal font with the modern cover of 1921; at the back, by the atirs leading to the west gallery, is the moder 19thC font and its cover.

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 19thC font and cover in use

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view of font cover

Scene Description: "oak cover in memory of Henry Richmond Houghton Gale and his wife Emma, has the heads of their four daughters depicted in the centre; this is dated 1921" [cf. FontNotes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11044URS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Michael

Church Location: 1 Church Rd, Great Urswick, Ulverston LA12 0TA, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Cumbria, North West

Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the A590, E of Dalton-in-F., NE of Barrow-in-F.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle

Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale -- Hundred of Amounderness [in Domesday -- formerly Lancashire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the gallery

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Urswick in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) notes: "The church of Urswick appears to have been the mother church of Ulverston and Pennington, [...] and probably of Aldingham also. Its advowson must have belonged to the lords of Furness, for it came to the abbey without any special grant, so far as known [...]; it was confirmed to them by the pope in 1194. [...] The church was appropriated to the abbey in 1228 [...] The font now used is a modern Gothic one dating from 1827. The old octagonal font of red sandstone was then taken away, but was preserved and restored to the church about 1905. The sides are quite plain and curve inwards to the base, which is square and in a separate piece." The Visit Cumbria web site [www.visitcumbria.com] notes: "hexagonal font which dates from the Medieval period. It has a splendid carved cover, showing dolphins encircling the heads of children." The Explore Low Furness web site [www.explorelowfurness.co.uk] [accessed 19 September 2006] notes: "For some reason the original font (now restored) was removed from the church and 'stored' in the garden of William Cranke, being returned at the beginning of the 20th century. ts oak cover in memory of Henry Richmond Houghton Gale and his wife Emma, has the heads of their four daughters depicted in the centre; this is dated 1921." The Cumbria Directory web site [www.thecumbriadirectory.com] suggests a 12th-century date. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD2683874189] notes: "C19 font and medieval font with rich cover dated 1921."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.1583, -3.1218

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 9′ 29.88″ N, 3° 7′ 18.48″ W

UTM: 30U 492046 6001141

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1921

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-04-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.