Stapleton nr. Brampton / Staplet

INFORMATION

FontID: 15933STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B6318, WSW of Bewcastle, 13 km NNW of Brampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly Cumberland
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Cox (1913) notes: "Rebuilt on old site 1830. Bishop Nicolson, in 1703, found it in a most shameful plight: 'The Quire here is most intolerably Scandalous. No Glass in the Windows ; No Ascent to anything that looks like an Altar; no Flooring; No Seats. . . . The parishioners follow the Example of their Parson; and have the Body of the Church in as nasty a pickle as the Quire. . . . Not one pane of Glass in any of the Windows. The Font is abominable, the Seats most scurvily low, and (in a word) everything very wretched." [NB: the church itself is said to be ancient, but we have no information on any of the fonts it may have had]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cumberland and Westmorland, London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., 1913