Lastingham village and St Mary's monastic church, North Yorkshire, looking N to Spaunton Moor. St Cedd founded a monastery here in AD654.
Lastingham village, & St Mary's church, North Yorkshire, looking N to Spaunton Moor. St Cedd founded a monastery here in AD654, died of the plague in 664 & was succeeded as abbot by his brother St Chad. Vikings destroyed the Anglo-Saxon monastery during the C9th-10th. It was re-founded in 1078 as a Norman Benedictine house by Abbot Stephen of Whitby Abbey who built the monastic church with a stone crypt below as a shrine to St Cedd on the site of his burial. Stephen's monks moved to York in 1088 leaving the monastic church unfinished. It became a parish church in 1228, alterations were made in the C13th & C14th, the W bell tower added in the 1400s.
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Location: St Mary's Church, Lastingham, Kirkbymoorside, Pickering, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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