Market Place
To the east of Stricklandgate now between 25 and 27 Stricklandgate but probably originally extending south to Finkle Street.
It is currently entirely paved with block sets and pedestrianised there were previously two roads on the north side Cheapside and south side Mercers Lane. They were separated by buildings at the Stricklandgate end (now demolished) and the area for market stalls in the middle extending towards Branthwaite Brow.
Covered Market Indoor Market
Wine Merchant
DeChambre House
Slaughter Houses
Unitarian Chapel (Mason's Arms)
Cellars
Woolpack Yard (Woolpack Hotel)
Iron fronted buildings (Winder on widened Branthwaite Brow
Canal link
Finkle Street Road to the north via Stramongate Bridge
Market at Parish Church
Butchers Rows (Town Hall to Finkle Street) Old Shambles baited beef
Potato market
WALK
Proclamations
Political rallies
(Celebration?)
Power
Moot Hall (burned down 1960s), Court loft
Punishment
Court Room
Black Hole Dungeon
Gaols and prisons
Appleby County Court
Piety
Flagellants
CURWEN 1900
During the C16 shops began to appear in the principal streets, but they were mostly of the store-room kind, the chief places for the display of goods still being in the market or fair.
Blome's Britannia, written in 1673, speaks of “ Kirkby-Kendale as a Market town, which for largeness, neatness, good buildings and trading, is the chief in the County .... It has deservedly purchased a good name, and the great trade here proven makes it to be very populous, for the people seem to be shapen out for trade
Taking hold of and shaking the bull ring was tantamount to throwing down the gauntlet as a general challenge to a fight, and not infrequently the fairs and market days were signalised in this way by pugnacious fellows.
In olden days a bell used also to be rung on a market day to signify that permission was then given to the farmers to sell the produce of their dairies.
The Mayor respectfully requests the attendance of the CLERGY, MINISTERS, GENTLEMEN, and inahbitants of this BURGH, and of the Neighbourhood, at the Town Hall on Thursday the 17th instant, at a quarter before twelve o'clock, to proceed with him and the Corporation to Proclaim HIS ROYAL MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FOURTH. February 14th 1820. The proclamation will be mode at the folowing places - The Market Cross, the Mayor's opposite Captain French Lane, Highgate Bank, Head of New-Street, in the middle of Stramongate, and again at the Cross.
No. 38 Highgate. The little shop on the south side of the narrow entry was, in 1795, a pawnbroker’s establishment, kept at first by Thomas Robinson, who advertised in October of that year to sell by auction at the Market Cross all his unredeemed pledges. He was succeeded by a Mr. Long and then by a Mr. Gaskill.
In 1850 a great restoration of the Parish Churchcommenced when it was discovered that the chancel piers were in a parlous state and the old St. George’s Chapel in the Market Place was cleaned and put into a state of decent repair for the temporary occupation of the congregation, as far as space would allow.
John Mann, one of the churchwardens, gave some of the old carved capitals, corbels, and mullions (from the parish church) to his friend the Rev. Edward Hawkes, minister of the Unitarian Chapel, and some of these are still to be seen ornamenting a rockery at the burial ground in the Market Place.
