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St Mary and St Bega

St Mary And St Bega

St Bees

Cumbria

Unroofed at Dissolution, re-roofed 1611 for use as Parish Church

Architectural Features

further restoration 1622.

Original Romanesque west door of four semi-circular orders (under hoodmould) carried between ornamentally carved cushion capitals.

Three outer orders carved with chevron interspersed with heads

C19 two- and three-light aisle windows, restored two- and three-light C17 clerestory windows.

Polychromed blind arcading to east wall, Minton floor tiles.

Medieval bracket piscina in north transept arm.

Numerous inscribed/carved medieval grave slabs in north transept arm and east end of south aisle.

Stone set in south wall at west end of aisle inscribed and dated 1611, said to commemorate repairs carried out by churchwardens.

Old and New Testament cycles in C19 stained-glass windows.

Octagonal marble font in south aisle given by contractor in 1858.

C19 octagonal wooden pulpit.