St Annes's Chapel

Supposed to have been in a field (now houses) between the Union Buildings and Horncop Lane.

An extract from Cornelius Nicholson's Annals of Kendal (p79)

St. Anne's Chapel, Dockwra Hall.—

"There was another chapel, called 'St. Anne's Chapel,' which is supposed to have been situate near Dockwra Hall; and at this place there was a house in Mr. Machell's time, which, from the form of the windows, and the fabric thereof, seemed to have been this same chapel." So far from Dr. Burn. If the reader will refer to Speed's Plan, prefixed to this volume, he will find it very prominently placed ; representing a spacious fabric, with lofty tower, and apparently enclosed by a high wall, like the manor-houses of the border counties. It stood on the site of an out-house, in a field between the Union Buildings and Horncop. Dockwra Hall was formerly the seat of a family of its own name. We find, from an inquisition taken at Kendal, in the 49th Edward III. on the death of Johan, wife of John de Coupland (who, for his services in the battle of Durham, had the moiety of the manor of Kendal, afterwards called the "Richmond Fee," granted to him by the crown, it having become escheated for want of heirs of the de Lindsayes), that Bobert de Docura was one of the jurors on that occasion ; and that (doubtless the same) " Robert de Docwra held of the said John de Coupland, divers tenements in Kirkeby-Kendale, by fealty, and the service of 2s. a year, as of her manor

of Kirkeby." There is an epitaph in the church of Lilley, in Herefordshire, to the memory of Thomas Dockwra, the elder, Esq., lord of Puckeridge, and " descendant of the ancient family of Dockwras, of Dockwra Hall, in Kendal,nephew and heir unto the right honourable Sir ThomasDockwra, lord grand prior of the knights of St. John ofJerusalem." 1 The chapel spoken of by Burn was probablyan oratory within the house, and might be dedicated to St. Anne.