Wall, to West of Priory Church Nave, Incorporating Medieval Cross and Lintel
WALL, TO WEST OF PRIORY CHURCH NAVE, INCORPORATING MEDIEVAL CROSS AND LINTEL, B5345
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1137319
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Wall, to West of Priory Church Nave, Incorporating Medieval Cross and Lintel
- Statutory Address:
- WALL, TO WEST OF PRIORY CHURCH NAVE, INCORPORATING MEDIEVAL CROSS AND LINTEL, B5345
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1137319
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wall, to West of Priory Church Nave, Incorporating Medieval Cross and Lintel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALL, TO WEST OF PRIORY CHURCH NAVE, INCORPORATING MEDIEVAL CROSS AND LINTEL, B5345
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WALL, TO WEST OF PRIORY CHURCH NAVE, INCORPORATING MEDIEVAL CROSS AND LINTEL, B5345
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Bees
- National Grid Reference:
- NX 96856 12107
Details
NX 91 SE (INSET) ST BEES B5345 (West side) St Bees 8/68 Wall, to west of Priory Church nave, incorporating 9.3.67 medieval cross & lintel (formerly listed as part of Priory Church of St Mary and St Bega
G.V. I Priory Church of St Bega) Wall; C19 incorporating medieval fragments. Snecked rubble c7 ft high; flat coping. Full-height semicircular niche to centre with monolithic stone wheel-head cross c3 ft high of (early?) medieval date, probably removed to present position from Chapel How, c1 mile to north-east of St Bees on B5345 where it served as resting (or corpse) cross. Lintel spanning niche placed there in 1868 following its discovery embedded in late C12 south aisle wall. Various sources give dates from C10 to C12; shape and decoration suggest Irish/Norse influence and possible pre-Conquest date. Single stone with triangular upper surface. Interlace and knots to either side of central scene showing wyvern (no hind legs and 2nd, smaller head to end of tail) with head turned over shoulder, confronting warrior armed with sword, shield, and conical helm; said to depict St George, or St Michael (latter proposed as it was once thought to have come from St Michael's chapel, Rottington although little is known of this site), but the scene may be from Norse mythology rather than Christian.
Listing NGR: NX9685612108
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76166
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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