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Cockersand Abbey chapter house
The building in 2008
Location within Lancashire
General information
Type	Mausoleum
Location	Thurnham, Lancashire
Country	England
Coordinates	54°00′32″N 2°49′22″W / 54.008924°N 2.822907°W / 54.008924; -2.822907
Opened	1230 (795 years ago) (1230)
Technical details
Material	Red sandstone
Listed Building – Grade I
Designated	2 May 1968
Reference no.	1362525

Cockersand Abbey chapter house is a mausoleum in the English village of Thurnham, Lancashire. A Grade I listed building and formerly part of Cockersand Abbey, it dates to 1230. It was used as a family mausoleum by the Daltons of Thurnham Hall during the 18th and 19th centuries. The land was acquired by the Daltons shortly after 1556, when Robert Dalton married Ann Kitchen.

Cockersand Abbey has existed from the late 12th century. The building is constructed of red sandstone rubble and has a slate roof. Its plan is octagonal although the west side has been squared off. At some point (probably the mid-18th century) it was converted into a family burial chamber.

See also

• Listed buildings in Thurnham, Lancashire

References

1. The Chapter House, Cockersand Abbey – Historic England
2. "Ancient abbey is saved by grant". BBC News. 21 June 2007. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
3. The History of Thurnham Hall – ThurnhamHall.com
4. Historic England, "The Chapter House, Cockersand Abbey (1362525)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 January 2015
5. Hartwell & Pevsner (2009), pp. 249–51

Sources

• Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) , Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9

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Grade II*	Capernwray Hall Custom House Lancaster City Museum Lancaster Moor Hospital Lancaster Town Hall Leighton Hall Loyn Bridge Midland Hotel Morecambe Winter Gardens Quernmore Park Royal Albert Hospital Skerton Bridge Thurland Castle Whittington Hall   Churches   Arkholme: St John the Baptist Bolton-le-Sands: Holy Trinity Brookhouse: St Paul Cockerham: St Michael Lancaster: Cathedral Ripley School St John the Evangelist Over Kellet: St Cuthbert Overton: St Helen Silverdale: St John Tatham: St James the Less Whittington: St Michael
Grade II	Abbeystead House Cockerham Vicarage Conder Bridge The Dukes Greaves Park Hotel Grand Theatre Grizedale Bridge Hornby Village Institute Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works Lancaster (Greaves) railway station Lancaster Moor Hospital Lancaster railway station Lancaster Royal Grammar School Leck Hall Lindeth Tower Littledale Hall Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial Queen Victoria Memorial The Storey The Stork Wennington Hall Windermere House   Churches   Borwick: St Mary Capernwray: Chapel Claughton: St Chad Dolphinholme: St Mark Ellel: St John Glasson: Christ Halton-on-Lune: St Wilfrid Lancaster: Christ Cemetery St Paul, Scotforth St Thomas Leck: St Peter Morecambe: Holy Trinity St John the Divine St Laurence Over Wyresdale: Christ Quernmore: St Peter Slyne-with-Hest St Luke Tatham: Good Shepherd Warton: St Oswald Yealand Conyers: St John the Evangelist St Mary
Unlisted	Carlisle Bridge Carnforth MPD Carnforth War Memorial Escowbeck The Gregson Centre Greyhound Bridge HM Prison Lancaster Farms Hazelwood Hall Heysham nuclear power station Lancaster bus station Langthwaite Filter House Lune Millennium Bridge Phoenix Street drill hall Plover Scar Lighthouse Stone Jetty Three Brothers   Churches   Aughton: St Saviour Lancaster: St Michael, Lancaster Moor Hospital King's Community Morecambe: Clark Street Congregational St Barnabas St Christopher, Bare Wray: Holy Trinity
Demolished	Aldcliffe Hall Central Pier, Morecambe Cockerham Priory Hornby Priory Lancaster Friary Lancaster Roman Fort North Western Hotel Over Burrow Roman Fort Old Loyne Bridge West End Pier, Morecambe Wyresdale Abbey
Listed buildings in	Arkholme-with-Cawood Bolton-le-Sands Borwick Burrow-with-Burrow Cantsfield Carnforth Caton-with-Littledale Claughton Cockerham Ellel Gressingham Halton-with-Aughton Heaton-with-Oxcliffe Heysham Hornby-with-Farleton Ireby Lancaster Leck Melling-with-Wrayton Middleton Morecambe Nether Kellet Over Kellet Over Wyresdale Overton Priest Hutton Quernmore Roeburndale Scotforth Silverdale Slyne-with-Hest Tatham Thurnham Tunstall Warton Wennington Whittington Wray-with-Botton Yealand Conyers Yealand Redmayne

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