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Church of St Michael and All Angels

A Grade I Listed Building in Hawkshead, Cumbria

  • Hawkshead CoE Church

  • St Michael: c16-c17 church approached from the south-west uphill from the town

  • St Michael: nave & chancel in one; cylindrical & conical piers

  • St Michael: nave arcade painted 1680 by James Addison

  • St Michael: framed text painted on nave wall by James Addison

  • St Michael: framed text painted on nave wall by James Addison

  • St Michael: William Sandys, d.1548, & wife Margaret (Dixon); parents of Archbishop Edwin Sandys

  • St Michael: William Sandys, d.1548

  • St Michael: Margaret (Dixon), wife of William Sandys

  • St Michael: shield from the tomb of William Sandys

  • St Michael: memorial to Rev. Thomas Bowman d.1829; headmaster who taught William Wordsworth from 1785-1787

  • The Coffer, Hawkshead church

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Entry Name: Church of St Michael and All Angels

Listing Date: 25 March 1970

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1087259

English Heritage Legacy ID: 76819

ID on this website: 101087259

Location: Church of St Michael and All Angels, Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, LA22

County: Cumbria

District: South Lakeland

Civil Parish: Hawkshead

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria

Church of England Parish: Hawkshead St Michael and All Angels

Church of England Diocese: Carlisle

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