Underbarrow Chapel: sketch by the Rev. Thomas Machell (19 October 1691)

Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle: MS D & C Thomas Machell vol. 2
Image © Dean and Chapter of Carlisle Cathedral, and reproduced by their kind permission

The image has been slightly enhanced for legibility.

A ground plan. Machell records that the chapel is 27 yards long by 7 yards wide. It has a small tower at one end.

Underbarrow Chapel: postcard c. 1900-1910 of the 1708 replacement of earlier Chapel

Reproduced by the kind permission of the Reverend John Hodgkinson.
See his The Greater Parish of Kendal 1553-2002 (Kendal: Little Trinity Publications, 2002) page 74.

A Victorian photograph shows that its successor, built in 1708 and replaced in 1869, was similar though wider.

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