High Hesket
| High Hesket | |
| Cumberland | |
|---|---|
 St Mary the Virgin, High Hesket | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY474443 |
| Location: | 54°47’28"N, 2°49’5"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Carlisle |
| Postcode: | CA4 |
| Dialling code: | 016974 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Westmorland & Furness |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Penrith and The Border |
High Hesket is a village near the A6 road, in Cumberland. The village was on the A6 road until it was by-passed.
High Hesket has a pub, a church and a school.
Parish church
The parish church is St Mary the Virgin, known as 'the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Hesket-in-the-Forest'.[1]
The earliest chapelry in Inglewood Forest may have been here in around 1200 and in 1340 the Bishop of Carlisle licensed John de Eskeved as priest to minister at Hesket and to teach grammar at the Bishop's School in Penrith. The chapel here might have been built by Sir William Langleys, the King's Chief Forester 1328-1342.
The church as it stands today is not the mediæval chapel, though it may stand on its site. The chancel has lovely stone arch, dating from 1537. The nave and aisle were rebuilt in 1720 in Georgian style and 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.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about High Hesket) |
