Crown Street Low Sand Lane St Josephs RC Church – Cockermouth History

Crown Street Low Sand Lane St Josephs RC Church

Crown Street Kingfisher Inn shows Tolsons Engineer & Coach Builder garage with repairs works. Beside is Tolsons Imperial Garage. Adjacent is the Kingfisher Inn. The Imperial Garage was demolished to make way for the car park for Kingfisher. The gable end with the advert was St Joseph school but was demolished and rebuilt as church rooms. Observe the door to the right of Tolsons window, the lintel has the inscription "TA 1724" This is now painted over but still observable; see Bradbury "Cockermouth in Pictures 6" page 32 for other inscriptions. c 1970

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Crown Street 12 St Joseph church school room gable end had Tolson garage advert later demolished and church room extended c 1970 p3 — Crown Street 12 St Joseph church and school – the gable end had Tolson garage advert – later demolished and church room extended c 1970

Crown Street 12 St Josephs Catholic Church rooms garage building gone 2020 p4 — Crown Street 12 St Josephs Catholic Church rooms are situated where there had been a taller building that faced the car park and was replaced by this lower building. The old building had been the school and the gable end of the previous taller building had an advert for Tolson garage. This photo is 2020 Google Street View

Crown Street 12 Catholic Church Presbytery and School. c 1930

Crown Street 12 St Joseph church vicarage c 1970 p3 — Crown Street 12 St Joseph church vicarage before the walls were removed to make bigger car parking area c 1970

Crown Street 12 St Josephs Catholic Church Civic Trust nomination c 1980 p3 — Cockermouth and District Civic Trust LOCAL HERITAGE LIST – ST JOSEPH’S CHURCH Cumberland Council have approved our nomination of St Joseph’s Church, church hall and priest’s house for entry on the Local Heritage List. The church is a Victorian Gothic style building originally designed by T G Gibson of Newcastle. It was opened in 1856, becoming a dedicated Catholic Church for Cockermouth accommodating up to 500 people. Previous to this, Catholic services had been held in the Sun Barn in the yard of the Sun Inn on Kirkgate. The building itself is plain with trefoiled lancet windows, bellcote and a thin hammer beam roof, the trusses closely spaced*. The three-sided apse was added in around 1904. The church hall was originally built as a day school and provided this service until 1967. Since then, the building came fully into use as a church hall. These premises were renovated in the 1990s. The adjoining Priest’s House has provided accommodation for the local Catholic Priest. The buildings as a whole have provided, and continue to provide, an important community focus and service to Cockermouth, primarily from the Catholic Church. *Description taken from ‘The Buildings of England, CUMBRIA, Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness by Mathew Hyde and Nikolaus Pevsner, 2010’. Page 283 refers. c 1980

Crown Street 12 St Josephs church rooms gable had advert Tolson Garage before rebuild c 1970 p3 — Crown Street 12 St Josephs church rooms when the other side of the gable had the advert for Tolson Garage before it was demolished and church room extended the roof line of the lower building on its right. c 1970

Crown Street 12 St Josephs church rooms before wall removed to make car parking area c 1970 p3 — Crown Street 12 St Josephs church rooms before wall removed by the road was removed to make the car parking area. The taller building that faced the viewer was replaced by a lower building. This tall building was the school and the far end of this building had an advert for Tolson garage. c 1970

Crown Street 14 Kingfisher 2024 p4 — Crown Street 14 Kingfisher 2024 p4 Google street view

Crown Street 14 Kingfisher Inn Tolsons Garage c 1970 p3 — Crown Street Kingfisher Inn shows Tolsons Engineer & Coach Builder garage with repairs works. Beside is Tolsons Imperial Garage. Adjacent is the Kingfisher Inn. The Imperial Garage was demolished to make way for the car park for Kingfisher. The gable end with the advert was St Joseph school but was demolished and rebuilt as church rooms. Observe the door to the right of Tolsons window, the lintel has the inscription “TA 1724” This is now painted over but still observable; see Bradbury “Cockermouth in Pictures 6” page 32 for other inscriptions. c 1970

Crown Street 14 Kirkland Carpets Kingfisher pub Tolson Garage later removed for car park entrance for Kingfisher c 1970 p3 — Crown Street 14 Kirkland Carpets Kingfisher pub Tolson Garage later removed for car park entrance for the Kingfisher pub. Kirkland Carpets was later made into two houses; The Kingfisher is now a private house; the phone box replaced with mobile phones; the garage front was later demolished to make the car park entrance for the pub and now gated private parking. c 1970

Crown Street 14 Kirkland Carpets 16 18 22 26 shop 28 Railway Hotel c 1970 p3 — Crown Street 14 Kirkland Carpets 16 18 22 24 all residential 26 Mrs McCartney shop then archway 28 Railway Hotel which was built when the railway terminated on Low Road, before the new railway was built on the elevated ground above Cockermouth. Kirkland Carpets had previously been Tolson’s car showroom advertising “Any make of car supplied” before the front was made into the current house front with windows and doors. c 1970

Crown Street 2 Low Sand Lane birthplace of Fearon Fallows Royal Astronomer c 1970 p3 — Crown Street 2 Low Sand Lane was the school clinic with dental service behind was birthplace of Fearon Fallows Royal Astronomer Royal. c 1970

Crown Street 2 Low Sand Lane school clinic dental service birthplace of Fearon Fallows Royal Astronomer c 1960 p3 — Crown Street 2 Low Sand Lane was the school clinic with dental service behind was birthplace of Fearon Fallows Royal Astronomer. c 1960

Crown Street 2 flood and Low Sand Lane plaque for Fearon Fallows c 1930 p2 — Crown Street 2 flood and Low Sand Lane now part of Trout Hotel plaque is for Fearon Fallows house was former school dentists. May be 1931, 1932 or 1938 flood.

Crown Street 2 Low Sand Lane school dentist doctor behind left is Trout Hotel c 1960 p3 — Crown Street 2 Low Sand Lane note the blue official sign of the school dentist and doctor next building is GP Dr Abrahams with his surgery behind now all part of the hotel. c 1960

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