Richard Parkinson (priest)
Richard Parkinson (1797–1858) was an English clergyman, known as a canon of Manchester Cathedral, college principal, theologian and antiquarian.
Richard Parkinson (priest)
Grave of Canon Richard Parkinson, died 1858, at St Bees Priory, Cumbria.
St Bees Priory is the parish church of St Bees, Cumbria, in England. There is evidence for a pre-Norman religious site, and on this a Benedictine priory was founded by the first Norman Lord of Egremont William Meschin, and was dedicated by Archbishop Thurstan of York, sometime between 1120 and 1135.
West Door of St Bees Priory Church
Window showing the arrival of St Bega at St Bees
The remains of the 10th-century cross in the graveyard
Romanesque lintel circa 1120, showing St Michael fighting a dragon