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The Kendal Cross
Trip No.178 Entry No.1 Date Added: 21st Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
The Kendal Cross submitted by Sunny100 on 30th May 2010. The Kendal Cross, Cumbria, at SD.517922.
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Log Text: The Kendal Cross: located on a window sill in the Lady Chapel (east end of south aisle) in the Parish Church of Kendal, Holy Trinity.
The fragment was sited in strong sunlight at the time of our visit, so difficult to photograph.
Such a huge church, apparently the widest in Cumbria, and also the oldest in Kendal, with the site older than the building, as 'evidenced by the 8th/9th century cross shaft'.
A replica of the cross sits outside the western end of the church, on the green between the western entrance gates and the church.
Anchorite Well (Kendal)
Trip No.178 Entry No.2 Date Added: 22nd Jun 2022
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Anchorite Well (Kendal) submitted by Anne T on 22nd Jun 2022. Looking southwards towards Anchorite Cottage. Whilst the cottage looks relatively modern, the style of the windows indicate this structure is older than it looks (but not as old as the original hermitage!).
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Log Text: Anchorite Well, Kendal: a short-ish walk from Trinity Church (Kendal Parish Church), through a modern housing estate. The roads have some interesting names: Buttery Well Road (couldn't find the well, though), Mint Cake Cottages and Kirkbarrow.
The well was easily spotted as there is a large green metal sign at the entrance to the site.
Beautifully clear water. Would have liked to have been able to walk all the way around the well pool, but the western side path was private access only to the cottages.
St Peter's Church (Heversham)
Trip No.178 Entry No.3 Date Added: 22nd Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Peter's Church (Heversham) submitted by Anne T on 22nd Jun 2022. Heversham 01, located in the south porch, near the south door. Dating to the late eighth century. The church guide says that the war memorial in the churchyard is probably a replica of what this cross would originally have looked like.
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Log Text: St Peter's Church, Heversham: A lovely little village, but so very full of builders with loud radios, which there was no avoiding.
Inside the church was quiet, but a number of other visitors who came and went. We looked at the cross shaft (and the very old south door) in the south porch, and easily found the small fragment in the external wall to the east of the porch, in the south wall.
The church itself was simple and unremarkable, apart from an old wooden pew which was carved with the date 1626, and a huge chest at the east end of the north aisle, which dates from1400.