Church of St Edmund is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. A C14 Church.

Church of St Edmund

WRENN ID
lone-pediment-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 February 1968
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Edmund, Newbiggin
OS grid reference
NY 627 286
Coordinates
54.65163, -2.5784
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Edmund is a parish church that was rebuilt in the 14th century and extensively restored in 1854. It is constructed of coursed, squared rubble and features medieval pilaster buttresses at the western corners. The church has graduated slate roofs with stone copings, a bellcote at the west end, and an apex cross at the east end. The pointed west door is from the 19th century. The side windows are mullioned with two lights and have ogeed trefoil heads, while the pointed east window and the two easternmost windows are mainly original, with others dating from the 19th century. An additional north chapel was added in the early 16th century, featuring two mullioned windows with two and three segment-headed lights, as well as a reset 14th-century door. Inside, there is a tomb niche in the south wall of the chancel with a cusped cinquefoiled head, and a piscina in the south wall with an ogeed trefoil head. The north chapel contains a 12th-century pillar piscina with decorative corner shafts, and the chapel screen has a carved top rail from the 14th or 15th century.

Local climate

Church of St Edmund sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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