Parish Church of St Andrew
PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, GRANSDEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127203
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, GRANSDEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127203
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, GRANSDEN ROAD
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.
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 ANDREW, GRANSDEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Caxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 30013 57807
Details
TL 35 NW CAXTON GRANSDEN ROAD
7/87 Parish Church of 31. 8.62 St Andrew
II*
Parish Church. Chancel and west wall of nave C13, nave, south aisle and tower C14 and C15. Restorations in 1863 when south aisle and south porch rebuilt, and 1929-30 and 1937. Walls of fieldstones and reused material with limestone and clunch dressings. Plain tile roofs. North elevations. Tower of three stages with moulded plinth continuous around angle buttresses. Embattled parapet and moulded cornice. Belfry window of two cinquefoil- lights in four-centred arch, small quatrefoil in square-light below with label. North nave wall buttressed, with three C19 windows and C14 doorway; blocked openings. Chancel, late C13 three restored windows, two with two-trefoiled lights in two-centred arches and one lancet window. Cross finials to parapet gables. Interior. Nave arcade of four bays with two-centred arches of two hollow chamfered orders with octagonal caps and bases. Tower arch of three moulded orders with semi octagonal attached shafts with moulded caps and bases. Stair turret in south-east corner. Chancel arch of two moulded orders with semi-circular shafts with moulded caps and bases. Double piscina C13 in chancel with two arches and five pointed star in line relief above and some painted banding. Sedilia, solid masonry with one seat at lower level. Coffin lid C13. For monuments and brasses see R.C.H.M.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs., p35, mon.1 Pevsner. Buildings of England, p314
Listing NGR: TL3001357807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51114
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 314
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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