Parish Church of St John the Baptist and St Pandionia
PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST AND ST PANDIONIA, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127179
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St John the Baptist and St Pandionia
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST AND ST PANDIONIA, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127179
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St John the Baptist and St Pandionia
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST AND ST PANDIONIA, THE GREEN
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST AND ST PANDIONIA, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eltisley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 26841 59664
Details
TL 2659-2759 ELTISLEY THE GREEN (South Side)
11/123 Parish Church of St John the 31.a.62 Baptist and St Pandionia
GV II*
Parish Church. Nave and aisles c.1200 with north chapel added and chancel rebuilt or extended in C13, replaced in white brick c.1840. Clerestorey remodelled and tower and spire added C15. Chancel and north chapel rebuilt c.1840. Restoration 1875-9. Walls of pebble rubble with limestone and clunch dressings and C19 white brick. Roofs of lead and slate. South elevation: Tower of three stages with diagonal buttresses, plastered to second stage, with embattled parapet. Belfry window with restored Y-tracery. Octagonal spire with crocketed gablets to spire lights. Tower clock, C18, placed in tower in 1893 with weights contained in external wooden box. Nave roof with bell turret and cross finial to parapet gable; three C19 two-light clerestorey windows, two C19 three-light aisle windows. C19 porch; original south doorway with dogtooth ornament and shafted jambs with moulded caps and bases. Chancel of white brick with reset south doorway. Interior: Nave arcades of three bays with some restoration. Two-centred arches of single chamfered order with chamfered labels, circular piers with stiff-leaf and water-leaf carved capitals. C13 chancel arch of two chamfered orders with moulded labels and mask stops. Font, C13 with octagonal bowl and carved C17 pyramidal cover. Tomb recess in north chapel, C14 with moulded and crocketed label stopped with lion and woman's heads, two mutilated C13 figures, a robed figure and knight in chain mail. For other monuments and floor slabs see RCHM.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs., p90, mon. 1 Pevsner: Buildings of England, p337 V.C.H. Vol. V, pp55, 57
Listing NGR: TL2684159664
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51158
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 57
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 337
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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