STAINMORE, a chapelry in the parish of BROUGH,
EAST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, 4 miles (E. S. E.)
from Brough, containing 6lfi inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Carlisle, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and
£400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Earl of
Thanet. The chapel was erected as a school-house in
1594, consecrated for divine service in 1608, and repaired,
in 1699, by Thomas, Earl of Thanet, who built the
school-house adjoining, in which about thirty children
are instructed, but the only permanent income attached
to it is an annuity of £8, devised by Sir Cuthbert
Buckle, Knt., in 1594. At a place called Maiden Castle
is a Roman fort, and there is another at Rere Cross,
which, according to tradition, was erected, in the first or
second century, by Marius, a petty king of the Britons,
in memory of a victory which he obtained there over
the Picts.