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The Burne-Jones and Morris window in the north wall of the 
aisle, near the small blocked door, in memory of the late Dr. 
Brown, who died in 1875, was the precursor of the beautiful series 
of windows by the same artists in Brampton parish church. 
Another window in the aisle commemorates a Lanercost yeoman, 
John Addison, elder brother of a famous man whose epitaph we 
shall presently have occasion to notice. 
Let us now, as we walk up the aisle, refer to the notes of 
Bishop Nicolson, who visited Lanercost on July 30, 1703. He 
says (p. 57): 
Part of the North Isle of the old Abbey-Church is here made into a pretty 
handsome Parish-Church ; well enough seated, and clean. It wants onely 
plaistering on the South Wall, wth_ye Qs Arms, &c. which would much 
enlighten it. ’Tisnowtoo dark. . . . . There’s no Register-Book (either 
here or at Walton) of any thing done in the parish, before Mr. Dickenson’s 
comeing among ’em; which was about Twenty years agoe. The Church of 
Lanercost was also put into its present figure in his time. 
By the ‘‘south wall” the bishop must mean a wall, perhaps a 
wooden partition, at that time separating the aisle from the nave ; 
and this partition, whatever may have been the “figure” into which 
Mr. Dickenson put the church, may have been put up soon after 
the suppression of the priory, when the choir, and also the nave, 
which in Buck’s view, dated 1739, is shewn without a roof, were 
allowed to fall into a ruinous condition. Buck also represents the 
eastern portion of the aisle as without a roof, which explains 
Bishop Nicolson’s statement (A.D. 1703) that “Part of the North 
Isle of the old Abbey-Church is here made into a pretty handsome 
Parish Church.” Chancellor Waugh, who visited Lanercost in 
1749 or thereabouts, in a manuscript note to Bishop Nicolson’s 
account of the abbey, says: 
In 173 this church was repaired and beautified & the side Isle here 
mentioned being roofed and fitted up for a parish church at the charge of the 
Parishioners with the assistance of a Brief which raised Pounds. It is 
now a large handsome decent and convenient church. 
I quote this memorandum exactly as it stands in Dr. Waugh’s 
MS. But, even apart from its omission of important figures, it is 
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