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A Lakeland Drive

Cumbria. Wed 5 Sep 2018



 Our friend is the minister for a number of churches around Ennerdale

 including this one at Lamplugh, and this is our first stop on our drive

 

 It has a number of finely carved monuments which I photograph. This one has decayed badly but appears to be for a curate
of the parish, Clement Nicolson and his wife who died in 1820 aged 73.

 The gateway is for Lamplugh Hall and I think has been recently rebuilt. The coat of arms for John Lamplugh has the date 1595

 Fine carving and well preseverved, presumably form 1849

 Captain Henry Jackson of Lamplugh was a sailor who died of yellow fever at Mara Bona in Jamaica in 1817, age 35. The
stone has a long elegy by Cockermouth poet William Hetherington:

In foreign climes, far from his native home,

The youthful sailor finds an early tomb.

Jackson, with spirits buoyant as the breeze,

That curls the white waves on the swelling seas,

Sleeps cold in death, where Mara Bona spreads

Perennial flowers and ever verdant meads ;

Where citron groves their fruit-bent branches wave,

And orange trees blossom o'er his hallow'd grave.

Dear friends, who, weeping his lov'd memory mourn,

And heave the deep sigh o'er his pictur'd urn,

What counsel can the honest muse impart,

To sooth the anguish of each grief-torn heart?

The youth departed, sleeps in peace, secure

From grief and pain surviving friends endure.

The cares of life can now no more enthrall, —

The spirit freed now soars beyond them all.

Boreas, with blust'ring storms, disturbs no more,

Nor Neptune's trident, shaking every shore.

     
 There are some more fine monuments in the churchyard - more lower down this page
    
 
     
 And the church also has some fine stained glass windows, though my quickly taken pictures hardly do them justice.

 The architect was William Butterfield, and three of the stained glass windows were by Charles E Kempe
     
 

 
     
 

 

 
     
 

 

 

 
     
  

 

 

 

 Buttermere

 Our next stop was another church, at Buttermere

 

 Which has a memorial for Alfred Wainwright

 You could read I Corinthinas 12 and 13

 Or just look up to the hills

 

 The path over Scarth Gap would take you to Ennerdale, but we were driving

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