EAW014524 ENGLAND (1948). St Andrew's Church, Dacre Castle and the village, Dacre, 1948

Sunbeam Farm

In the churchyard are four statues, all Grade 2* listed. Unfortunately we cannot identify them in this aerial image (above), but this churchyard contains four medieval carvings, one at each corner of the older smaller churchyard, each about four feet high and depicting a beast with a stone column. The creature on the NW side is asleep, the next is attacked by a small creature (now worn off but the original beast is looking over its shoulder); then the beast fights the small creature, and then finally looks very happy (and maybe not so hungry). Sometimes described as bears, that is rather fanciful and there is no clear indication what they are. The copyright on this image (to left) of one of the statues is owned by Humphrey Bolton and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons - Attribution- ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Church of St Andrew, Dacre Cumbria CA11 0HL Grade 1 listed building - English Heritage Building ID: 73747 Parish Church. C12 with C13 additions,and restorations of 1810 and 1875. Tower has inscription over entrance STEEPLE REBUILT 1810 C19 red sandstone battlemented parapets

Waterlogged moat

DACRE CASTLE Dacre, Cumbria CA11 0HL Grade 1 listed property - English Heritage Building ID: 73750 Fortified tower house. C14 with C17 and C19 alterations. This 20 metre tall moated pele tower has 2 metre thick walls. The 5th Lord Dacre had the castle converted into a more comfortable family home during the 1670’s, as law and order was gradually introduced to this previously troubled border region. Renovated again in the 1960’s, the castle is now a comfortable private residence The stone building replaced (about 1339-1354) a wooden tower at Dunmallet (or Dunmallogt) which had been built about 1307. Also Scheduled Ancient Monument "Moated Site of Dacre Castle"- List entry Number: 1011680 The moated site at Dacre Castle survives reasonably well, its earthworks in particular remaining well preserved. The monument includes the outer banks, moat and moated island upon which Dacre Castle stands. (Dacre Castle, its cellars, a garage, a telegraph pole, all field and garden walls, fences and gateposts and the surfaces of all paths are excluded from the Ancient Monument scheduling but the ground beneath all these features is included.)