Pele tower, Kentmere Hall Farm. Kentmere, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
Kentmere Hall is a 14th century tunnel-vaulted pele tower with five-foot thick walls. The turrets, one of the original windows and the spiral staircase remain. The tower was extended in the 15th or 16th century into a residence and is now a farmhouse. The tower has a 20th century flat roof replacing the original pitched roof; it was originally 4 storeys including a vaulted ground floor; it has slit openings with flat heads; there is a medieval window in the south wall of 2 trefoiled ogee lights in a square head with moulded label and a blank panel over. Kentmere Hall’s claim to fame is that Bernard Gilpin was born there in 1517. Bernard Gilpin was a famous preacher in Henry VIII's time and a leading churchman in the troubled times of the reign of Mary Tudor. He became a Fellow at Queen's College, Oxford, Rector of Thornton-le-Moors, Vicar of Norton, Rector of Houghton-le-Spring and Archdeacon of Durham but declined the bishopric of Carlisle, He was known as the "Apostle of the North" and died at Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham in 1583.
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Location: Kentmere Hall Farm. Kentmere, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
Photo credit: © Stan Pritchard / Alamy / Afripics
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