Church of St Bridget is a Grade II* listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1967. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Bridget
- WRENN ID
- sombre-chalk-twilight
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Bridget, Beckermet
- OS grid reference
- NY 014 060
- Coordinates
- 54.44043, -3.52037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Bridget is a Grade II* listed building located in Beckermet. It dates back to the medieval period with alterations made in the 17th century. The church is constructed of roughcast stone and features a slate roof, with some sections having ashlar dressings. It consists of a 2-bay nave and chancel, both topped with coped gables. The nave includes three-light wooden mullioned windows with ovolo-moulded mullions, and there is a small high window at the east end of the south wall. The plain west entrance has paired three-fielded panel doors, and a gabled bellcote houses two bells. Headstones are situated against the south wall.
Inside, the church has a barrel-vaulted ceiling and a double-chamfered chancel arch set into the wall. The interior features fielded panelled wainscoting and fixed benches. The 17th-century pulpit is adorned with fielded round-headed panels in architraves, fluted Doric half-columns, and an entablature with a pulvinated frieze. The altar rail is supported by slender columns on vase balusters, and the altar itself is a stone slab with a moulded edge. Additionally, there are George III arms and painted boards displaying the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Creed. Notably, Anglo-Saxon cross bases located to the south are designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Church of St Bridget sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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