Benchmark & 1GL Bolt - All Saints - Cockermouth, Cumbria
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N 54° 39.795 W 003° 21.631
30U E 476746 N 6057378
Cut benchmark & 1GL bolt, which is also an Intersected Station, on the NW corner of All Saints' church, Cockermouth.
Waymark Code: WM17P2H
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/18/2023
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Cut benchmark & 1GL bolt, which is also an Intersected Station, on the NW corner of All Saints' church, Cockermouth.
|
Square |
Easting |
Northing |
Mark type |
Description |
Height |
Order |
Datum |
Verified year |
Metres above ground |
|
NY |
1234 |
3064 |
CUT MARK |
BUTT ALL SAINTS CH NW ANG W FACE |
55.510 |
3 |
'N' |
1969 |
0.700 |
"All Saints' Church, Cockermouth. Bolt in West angle ; 1.94 ft. above surface [1GL, Penrith to Workington, Branch Levelling from Mark No. 69] = CUT MARK: BUTT ALL SAINTS CH NW ANG W FACE (ODN 55.510m, AGL 0.7m).
This bench mark was used during the First Primary Levelling, England & Wales. It was included as a side level on the Penrith to Workington line as "No. 69(a). All Saints' Church, Cockermouth. Bolt in West angle ; 1.94 ft. above surface. (p483)" at 181.592 feet above Liverpool datum."
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"Tall and compact Decorated style church. The west front has panelled buttresses, 4-light nave window and 3-light aisle windows. Nave clerestorey windows are cusped circles, and the aisles have 2-light windows. Porches have steep gables and are flanked by pointed trefoil windows. Transepts have 4-light north and south windows and their aisle windows are 3-light to south and north, and 2-light to east. They also have north and south doorways to vestry and chapel respectively and the vestry has a stack with paired octagonal shafts. The tower rises 2 stages above the nave, with clasping buttresses rising to gabled caps and corner pinnacles to the plain parapet. The tower has 2-light belfry openings with louvres. A tall stone spire has quatrefoil lights, and clock faces in the main directions. The chancel has a 5-light east window, and 2-light north and south windows."
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