Calthwaite Carlisle
01768 885 265

At the foundation stone laying in 1913 the bishop of Carlisle Rt Revd J W Diggle said " it is going to be a little gem,as I know from the plans I have seen"

All Saints was the last village church to be built in the diocese a good plain well-proportioned building of Lazonby sandstone. 

Those who have come to church here Sunday by Sunday over the years have handed to us a simple,beautiful building in which to worship God.We owe them a great debt.

We live in a time when village churches and village schools are under threat .We are fortunate that we still have our church and our Church of England school in Calthwaite. 

The church has made a distinctive contribution to the life of the village during the past 100 years ,amply fulfilling the faith and resolve of all those people who worked hard to enable it to be built.

We have a family Holy Communion  services on the third Sunday of the month and a lay led morning worship on the 1st Sunday both services have a time of fellowship at the end with coffee and refreshments.We have a "Rainbow Club"  for primary age children held on the first Saturday of the month held in school at 3.00pm.

"The parish of Calthwaite: All Saints is committed to the safeguarding of children, young people and adults. We follow the House of Bishops guidance and policies and have our own Parish Safeguarding Officer(s), PSOs. The Diocese of Carlisle's safeguarding pages contain vital links and information including contacts for the Diocesan Safeguarding Advisor (DSA) who advise our PSOs. If you are concerned that a child or adult has been harmed or may be at risk of harm please contact the DSA. If you have immediate concerns about the safety of someone, please contact the police and your local authority Children or Adults Services."

Front Street Armathwaite equidistant Carlisle and Penrith
01697472054

 

Welcome to Christ and St Mary's Armathwaite 

The church building dates originally from 1402, the following reference occurring in the records of the Royal Forest of Inglewood, from which the united benefice of seven churches takes its name:

"A rent of 2d was received for a purpresture at Armathwaite where a chapel had been built anew on the King's land containing one rood".

The building subsequently fell into a state of disrepair and by the mid seventeenth century was being used as a cattle shed.

In 1667, the church was extensively restored by Richard Skelton of Armathwaite Castle, a peel tower standing on the banks of the River Eden. John Skelton, an earlier member of the family, was poet laureate to Henry VIII and is thought to have been born at the castle.

The church now stands very much as it would have been at its restoration apart from the nineteenth century addition of pews and an early twentieth century vestry. The beautiful east window was given in 1926 in memory of Edward and Fanny Ecroyd of Low House and was made in the workshops of William Morris, although long after his death.   The left hand light, depicting the Salvator Mundi, was designed by J. Henry Durle and the right hand light, depicting St Mary was designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones.

A new stained glass window was added to the south wall in 2016.  This is of a modern design, produced and installed by a local artist and gifted to the church by him.   The overarching intention of the artist is to represent God in Creation and at the same time create a work of art which could only meaningfully exist in Christ and St Mary's church - the representation of features in the local environment forging that unique link.  An interpretive description of the window, which explains the Christian symbolism within it, is available in the church.

The three bay continuous nave and chancel has a seventeenth century open timber roof of kingpost trusses, supporting a graduated sandstone slate roof with coped gables and a finial cross to the east gable.

After six centuries of Christian witness, the church still forms the spiritual heart of the community. An annual Harvest Supper, an event free to all with food provided by the congregation, takes place in the Old School Hall, adjacent to the church, to which the entire community is invited. An ecumenical Christmas Carol Concert, based around the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, is also held in the Old School Hall, attracting an enthusiastic congregation of carol singers and willing volunteers who read from both Christmas poetry as well as scripture. The church is also a collecting point for contributions to the Carlisle Food Bank.

Ivegill Carlisle
016974 73707

 

Welcome to Christ Church, Ivegill.

 

The Parish was formed in 1868 when Christ Church was built at the sole cost of the Reverend Arthur Emilius Hulton who came from a weathly Southampton family. The church was designed by RJ Withers and comprises Nave, Chancel, South Porch and Vestry. The East and West windows are by O'Connor of London and depict The Last Supper and the four Evangelists and four major Prophets. Other windows showing floral and fruit designs are by Powell of Whitechapel. 

 

The oak reredos has three elaborately carved panels along with six illuminated metal panels depicting the Ten Commandments. These latter are the work of Creighton & Scott of Carlisle.

 

An attractive Millennium Tapestry worked by parishioners and others in 2000 shows a variety of parish scenes. 

 

At the foot of the churchyard is a Peace Garden, opened by the Bishop of Carlisle in 2011, which includes an obelisk surmounted by a dove symbol adapted into a sun-dial. The sculptor was B Cowper of Catterlen.  

If you have any safeguarding concerns or questions in relation to this church and parish please contact the Carlisle Diocese safeguarding page- https://www.carlislediocese.org.uk/safeguarding/

Hutton-in-the-Forest
017684 84193

Plumpton Wall
01768885669

Hesket-in-the-Forest
01697473998

The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Hesket-in-the-Forest, is in the village of High Hesket. Hescath, Hescayth or Hesket means a house in the forest; or in old norse it means a horse race track.

The earliest chapelry in Inglewood Forest may have been here in c1200. It is documented that in 1340 there was a chapelry in the parish of St. Mary's, Carlisle when Bishop Kirkly licensed John de Eskeved priest to minister at Hesket and to teach grammar at the Bishop's School in Penrith. This chapel may have been built by Sir William Langleys, the King's Chief Forester 1328-1342.

St Mary's chancel and its lovely stone arch date from 1537, when, because of the plague, Hesket was licensed to have its own burial ground and to act as a parochial chapel. The nave and aisle were rebuilt in 1720 in Georgian style. The western porch was added in the early 18th century. An organ loft and three-decker pulpit were removed in 1874 and the present organ given by the James family of Barrock Park the same year. The oak box pews were removed in 1906 and replaced by pine pews and in 1950 the oak choir stalls were moved to their present position.

Services are held on the  2nd, 3rd and 4th Sunday at 11am. On a 5th Sunday a benefice service is held in one of the other 6 churches in the group at the earlier time of 10.30am. Please pay us a visit, we would love to see you.

St Mary's is open every day for prayer and visiting from 10am to 3pm

Front Street, Armathwaite, CA4 9PB
(016974) 72226

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