Description
Mounted watercolour of a church set in amongst trees. In the bottom left is Rosamond Talbot’s monogram and dated 1905. In the bottom left corner of the mount is a white sticky label marked ‘Old Church, Mardale, Westmorland. RC Talbot £1.1.0’.
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
Courtesy of the National Trust Collection at Lacock Abbey
Location
Haweswater Reservoir, Cumbria, England
Country
England
Tags
Category
Buildings & Architecture
TWW Comment
Most of the village's buildings were blown up by the Royal Engineers, who used them for demolition practice. The exception was the small church, which could accommodate only 75 people, and had an all-ticket congregation for its last service. It was then dismantled in April 1937, stone by stone, and the stones and windows were re-used to build the water take-off tower which is situated along the Western shore of the reservoir. village was submerged in the late 1930s when the water level of the valley's lake, Haweswater, was raised to form Haweswater Reservoir by Manchester Corporation
