Cumrew Rectory

Has been described as a Possible Bastle, and also as a Possible Pele Tower

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

NameCumrew Rectory
Alternative NamesThe Rectorie
Historic CountryCumberland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishCumrew

A stonehouse or bastle was noted in the 1603 survey of fortified places at Townfoot, Gilsand.

NY551504. 'The rectorie a stonehouse...' The thick-walled vicarage, now a barn or implement store. The building was surveyed in 1984. (PastScape ref. Perriam and Robinson)

Gatehouse Comments

Appears to be recorded in Cumbria HER an 'architectural fragment' of Plantagent date and as a 'bastle' of Tudor date. It would not be unusual for a medieval rectory in this area to be a small pele tower, although the evidence for this is slight, and for a pele tower to be adapted into a bastle. Alternatively, an unfortified medieval rectory has been replaced with a new bastle in the C16/C17.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY551504
Latitude54.8459510803223
Longitude-2.70152997970581
Eastings355100
Northings550400
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Books

  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 147 (plan incorrectly orientated)

Primary Sources

  • Graham, T. H. B. (ed.). 1934, The barony of Gilsland. Lord William Howard's survey, taken in 1603 (Feild-Booke yt explaines all the Map Booke for Gilsland taken in 1603) (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 16) p. 107