Crosby on Eden Church of St John

In the civil parish of Stanwix Rural.
In the historic county of Cumberland (Modern Authority of Cumbria, 1974 county of Cumbria).

The church was built in 1854 by RH Billings totally replacing a Medieval church on the same site. The present church has a two and half storey tower, a four bay nave and a single bay chancel. Supposedly built with stone from Hadrian's Wall. Jackson suggests that the church is built on the site of a motte, there being a distinct oval mound 2.0m high and a crescentic mound in the churchyard. The Norman font in the church, which suggests a contemporary church, suggests that the motte would have been on a nearby site. However, the church at Beaumont is built on a Norman motte, so the same could be the case here.

This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Cropmarks/slight earthworks remains.

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY44805959

PastScape number; 11413

Books

Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern) p97 [slight]
Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (CWAAS) p83
Jackson, M.J.,1990, Castles of Cumbria (Carel Press) p50
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1967, Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland (Harmondsworth) p113

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Crosby on Eden Church of St John

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY44805959

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