St Mary's Church, Staveley in Cartmel
Built 1793 on or near site of the original chapel (NMR). The minister was ‘Mr Gabriell Camelford, a godly and painful man in his calling’,1 but whose stipend was ‘uncertain’. After Fox had preached, ‘Camelforde was in such a rage: & such a frett & soe peevish that hee had noe patiens to heare but stirred vppe the rude multitude & they rudely haled mee out & strucke mee & punched mee & tooke mee & threw mee headelonge ouer a stone wall’. Fox identifies the person responsible as churchwarden John Knipe ‘whome the Lord after cutt off’. Undeterred, Fox afterwards retired to a local pub (unidentified) to continue disputation.
Image © Meg Twycross 13 June 2009
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