Church of St Bride is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Church.

Church of St Bride

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Bride, Bridekirk
OS grid reference
NY 116 336
Coordinates
54.69049, -3.37217
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Bride is a parish church built between 1868 and 1870 by Cory and Ferguson of Carlisle. It is constructed from rock-faced calciferous sandstone and features string courses and clasping buttresses. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and has coped gables with cross finials. The church is designed in a cruciform shape in the Neo-Norman style, complete with an apse. The nave includes a south porch with 19th-century zigzag arches supported by engaged columns. All the windows are round-headed and also feature engaged columns. The large square tower has a mosaic clock face and four-light bell openings on the south side. The south transept contains a reused 12th-century zigzag-arched doorway from the old church, as well as a built-in armorial stone from a tomb in the old church. Against the apse wall, there are eight grave slabs and two Roman quern stones.

Local climate

Church of St Bride sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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