Roger Bingham's column: Kirkby Lonsdale's new church tower
The Westmorland Gazette : A well-known rhyme about Kirkby Lonsdale goes: “A poor town, a proud people, An old church, and a new steeple’. As related in Alexander Pearson’s Annals of Kirkby Lonsdale the story goes that in c.1630 a recently-erected south porch round the corner made the west tower look shabby. Accordingly, James Rigge of Hutton Roof left a legacy towards the repair of the steeple, ‘providing the work was completed in three years. Whether it was because of the civil w...
Source: thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk