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St Bridget

St Bridget

Brigham

Cumbria

Late C11 with C12, C13

Architectural Features

C14 additions and alterations

Calciferous sandstone ashlar, under graduated greenslate roof with coped gables, cross finials and shaped ridge tiles.

Aisle has buttressed wall with C14 windows, that in west wall almond shaped and that in east wall 5-light, all with heavily restored tracery.

Circa 1390 porch has pointed arch and hoodmould.

Tower has blocked C14 west door under 2-light ogee-headed window

3-light window retaining some of its original C13 tracery.

5-light replica C13 east window.

Vestry has reused 2-light window with C13 tracery.

Interior: C13 font.

Medieval cross slab built into north wall.

Aisle piscina, sedilia and tomb recess for vicar Thomas de Burgh 1348

Various sculptured fragments from the medieval and earlier church.

Medieval cross slab built into blocked west door.

Unsigned C19 carved white-marble wall plaque to Ann Mary Morris.

C19 stained glass by Cox & Buckley and Sons, 1870 and by Alexander Gibbs, 1865.