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Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines Index 42. Bedale Town, North Yorkshire continued
The handsome church of St Gregory in Bedale, which is mainly of 13th and 19th century construction.
The magnificent early 14th century (~1330) fortified tower of St Gregory Church and the modern 'Anglo-Saxon Cross' below it. There is a remnant of a 9th century cross in the church. The fortified church tower is one of the best examples in northern England.
The tower nave and chancel of St Gregory Church, Bedale.
The great west door in the tower.
The statues of Sir Brian Fitzalan and his first wife Lady Muriel Fitzalan (mid 14th century), he is in alabaster she is in stone.
Two stone effigies of knights from the late 14th century.
Looking down the nave, through the chancel arch and onto the altar and east window beyond.
The somewhat restored 14th century medieval painting of George and the Dragon.
Some fine carving on the pillars of the nave arches.
The finely carved pulpit showing St Gregory the Great.
Some fine 16th-17th century Dutch and Flemish wood carvings behind the altar.
The medieval Sedilia.
Fragment of a medieval painting above the chancel arch (see also below). The painting is a 14th century representation the Angel of the Annunciation and the remains of some Elizabethan over-painting.
The chancel arch, nave, altar and east window of St Gregory's Church, Bedale.
Looking west down the nave to the great arched entrance to the tower and beyond is the unusually large west door. There are different styles of carving on the columns and arches of the nave dating from 1190 AD.
An old grave stone of?
Some old fragments in the south aisle - part of a Norman? pillar and an earlier 10th century carved Anglo-Saxon cross stone.
Looking west down the south aisle into the Lady Chapel with its wonderful large 'Jervaulx window' and its fine medieval tracery.
The wonderfully carved supporting arches of the nave and the north aisle.
The fine vaulting under the tower, easily missed, so look up the tower from the inside as well as the outside!
The inside entrance to the west door from under the tower.
The path to the church entrance - on the left is the modern 'Anglo-Saxon' style cross and on the right is the earliest old school house dating from the early 1500's and started by a chantry priest John Grege from Jervaulx Abbey.
Some of the blocks of the 2-3 tiered Georgian houses in Bedale just west of the parish church.
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