A Lakeland Drive
Cumbria. Wed 5 Sep 2018
Our friend is the minister for a number of churches around Ennerdale
including this one at Lamplugh, and this is our first stop on our
drive
It has a number of finely carved monuments which I photograph. This
one has decayed badly but appears to be for a curate
of the parish, Clement Nicolson and his wife who died in 1820 aged 73.
The gateway is for Lamplugh Hall and I think has been recently rebuilt.
The coat of arms for John Lamplugh has the date 1595
Fine carving and well preseverved, presumably form 1849
Captain Henry Jackson of Lamplugh was a sailor who died of yellow
fever at Mara Bona in Jamaica in 1817, age 35. The
stone has a long elegy by Cockermouth poet William Hetherington:
In foreign climes, far from his native home,
The youthful sailor finds an early tomb.
Jackson, with spirits buoyant as the breeze,
That curls the white waves on the swelling seas,
Sleeps cold in death, where Mara Bona spreads
Perennial flowers and ever verdant meads ;
Where citron groves their fruit-bent branches wave,
And orange trees blossom o'er his hallow'd grave.
Dear friends, who, weeping his lov'd memory mourn,
And heave the deep sigh o'er his pictur'd urn,
What counsel can the honest muse impart,
To sooth the anguish of each grief-torn heart?
The youth departed, sleeps in peace, secure
From grief and pain surviving friends endure.
The cares of life can now no more enthrall, —
The spirit freed now soars beyond them all.
Boreas, with blust'ring storms, disturbs no more,
Nor Neptune's trident, shaking every shore.
There are some more fine monuments in the churchyard - more lower
down this page
And the church also has some fine stained glass windows, though my
quickly taken pictures hardly do them justice.
Buttermere
Our next stop was another church, at Buttermere
Which has a memorial for Alfred Wainwright
You could read I Corinthinas 12 and 13
Or just look up to the hills
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