Raughton Head

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Raughton Head
Cumberland

All Saints' Church, Raughton Head
Location
Grid reference: NY379454
Location: 54°48’-0"N, 2°58’1"W
Data
Post town: Carlisle
Postcode: CA5
Dialling code: 016974
Local Government
Council: Cumberland
Parliamentary
constituency:
Carlisle

Raughton Head is a hamlet in Cumberland, eight miles south of the City of Carlisle.

All Saints' Church

The parish church, All Saints, in the 'Parish of Raughton Head with Gatesgill' is an edifice of a series of ages, its most prominently fave being a solid, Victorian brick tower. It was formally a chapel of ease for the Parish of Castle Sowerby and local tradition says that the chapel was thatched with fern. After long lying in ruins, the chapel was rebuilt in the 1670s and consecrated on the 21 July 1678.

In 1760 the Chapel was restored, and again in 1881: it was on this occasion that the tower was built, an organ was installed. The lychgate was erected in 1894 (and repaired in 1999). On All Saints’ Day 1936, the church (which previously had no name) was dedicated to All Saints by the Bishop.

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