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    3°35′36″W / 54.493777°N 3.593461°W / 54.493777; -3.593461 St Bees Priory is the parish church of St Bees, Cumbria, in England. There is evidence for a pre-Norman...
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    village there is St Bees Priory dating from 1120, and St Bees School founded in 1583. The Wainwright Coast to Coast Walk starts from St Bees and the National...
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  • St Bees Man was the name given to the extremely well preserved body of a medieval man discovered in the grounds of St Bees Priory, Cumbria, in 1981. His...
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    Saint Bega (redirect from St Bee)
    article reproduced on the St Bees website. The Hymn received its first modern performance on St Bega's Day 1981 at St Bees Priory, using an original composition...
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    Cornwall St Petroc's Church, Trevalga, Cornwall St James' in Great Ormside, Cumbria St Bees Priory, St Bees, Cumbria (now infilled)[citation needed] St Mary's...
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  • St Bees School is a co-educational fee-charging school, located in the West Cumbrian village of St Bees, England. In 1583, it was founded by Edmund Grindal...
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    time of Prior Langton (1256–1282) of St Bees Priory, concerning the coal mines at Arrowthwaite. St Bees Priory was dissolved in 1539, and the lands and...
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    land," referring to an area of the Forest bought from the estate of St Bees Priory. In July 2021 the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government...
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    Lanercost Priory Nunnery near Kirkoswald Penrith Friary (site) Preston Patrick Abbey (poss. site) Ravenstonedale Priory St Bees Priory Seaton Priory Shap Abbey...
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  • parish includes the village of St Bees and the surrounding coastline and countryside. In the 12th century a Benedictine priory was established in the parish...
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    attended lectures and had their library within the rebuilt chancel of St Bees Priory, whilst living in lodgings throughout the parish. Over 2,600 clergy...
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    organ at St George's Hall Windsor Castle, destroyed by fire in 1992. The last major instrument which he personally supervised was at St Bees Priory in 1899...
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    founding the Priory were well advanced by the time of the foundation charter, as opposed to the more gradual process at Wetheral and St Bees priories. Robert...
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  • England. "Repton Priory (313097)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 23 June 2013. "Houses of Austin canons: Priory of St Botolph, Colchester...
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    respectively. Kirkby Stephen (close to Tan Hill, North Yorkshire) and St Bees Head are the most easterly and westerly points of the county. The boundaries...
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    which claims to date to 1612 or the Antient [sic] Society of Ringers of St Stephen in Bristol, which was founded in 1620 and lasted as a ringing society...
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    founding father of Egremont in the foundation of St Bees Priory, dedicated to Saint Bega, at St Bees on the Cumbrian coast. The castle is of Motte-and-bailey...
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    well-preserved body of a knight found at St Bees Priory is that of Anthony de Lucy, known, prior to his identification, as St Bees Man. Sir Thomas Lucy (24 April...
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    Thousand Years of St Bees. St Bees PCC 2013 Hyde & Pevsner 2010, pp. 596–599 Historic England, "Church of St Mary and St Bega, St. Bees (1336027)", National...
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  • Cullercoats (Priory, 2012) The Complete Organ Works of Herbert Brewer (Priory, 2011) Great European Organs No. 83, St Bees Priory, Cumbria (Priory, 2011) The...
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    example of Norman architecture in England St Bees Priory, Cumbria, west door, c. 1160 Archway, Norman Tower, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, c. 1120–1148 Arches...
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  • simultaneous swinging of the bells in the bell chamber "Why a ring of bells is a tragic lost treasure of St Bride's" – St Bride's Church, Fleet Street...
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  • George Dixon (organ designer) (category People from St Bees)
    the town to become organist at St Bees Priory in 1887. Dixon assisted Livesey in the design of the new organ at St. Bees, which was built by Henry Willis...
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  • route: St Bees Priory *54°29′38″N 3°35′36″W / 54.493777°N 3.593461°W / 54.493777; -3.593461 - Ennerdale Bridge - Borrowdale - Derwentwater - St Bega's...
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    The bells of St Bees Priory, England shown in the "up" position. When being rung they swing through a full circle from mouth upwards round to mouth upwards...
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    Bell (1814), St. John's Anglican Church (Lunenburg), Nova Scotia, Canada Bell makers' memorial inside the foundry The bells of St Bees Priory shown in the...
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  • been split off. Furness Abbey was given the Furness peninsula; and St Bees Priory was granted land from the Norman lord of Millom around 1125. The Hougun...
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  • The bells of St Bees Priory shown in the "down" position, in which they are normally left between ringing sessions....
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    were benefactors of the priories of St. Bees, Wetheral and Calder. He died in early 1213 and was buried in the Priory of St. Bees. Thomas de Multon, paid...
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  • Another religious foundation of Meschin's was St Bees Priory, a daughter house of St Mary's Abbey, York. St Bees was founded around the same time as Embsay...
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