The crypt of St Mary's Church, Lastingham, North Yorkshire, built 1078 by Abbot Stephen of Whitby as a shrine to the C7th A-S founder St Cedd.
The crypt of St Mary's Church, Lastingham, built 1078 by Abbot Stephen of Whitby Abbey as a shrine to St Cedd, founder of the original monastery, who died of the plague here in AD664. The Anglo-Saxon monastery was destroyed by Vikings in the C9th-10th & refounded as a Norman Benedictine house. The crypt is entered by a staircase from the centre of the nave of the monastic church, it has four Norman columns on pre-Conquest bases, a round-ended apse, a chancel, nave & side aisles: a complete church in miniature.
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Location: St Mary's Church, Lastingham, Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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