All Saints Church is an Anglican church in Cockermouth. The cobbled footpath that leads to it gives you a real sense of what Cockermouth must have been like many years ago. 3 churches have sat on this site since the 14th century but the most current one dates back to 1854 and was rebuilt after a fire.

JakobusPilger

August 12, 2023

That a Christian place of worship is consecrated equal to "All Saints" (All Saints) is not so common, usually it is one (or at most two) named saints who are the patron saints of a church - and thus also of the community or village , in which this is located – possess.
But in search of the origin – or historical models – one has to go far back into history, because a pagan custom can be regarded as original for this practice of dedicating to ALL SAINTS, according to which there were already central temples in pre-Christian times, which generally were dedicated to all deities (PANTHEON).

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Ian Baines

August 16, 2024

Built on a high wooded knoll that formed much of the old town of Cockermouth and is now the east end of the town centre, All Saints is in two ways the high Anglican church in the town.
There has been a church here since at least 1395 but an 11th century one was probably there earlier. A new church was built in 1771 as part of the expansion of the eighteenth century old town. That burnt down in 1850 and the current church was built in 1854.

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