Church of All Saints and St Andrew

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TL 3455
11/105

KINGSTON
CHURCH LANE
Church of All Saints and St Andrew

22.11.67

GV
I

Parish church. The church was substantially rebuilt in 1488 following a fire and the materials of C13 church reset or incorporated, particularly in the chancel. C13 chancel, C15 nave and north and south aisle, C13 west tower restored. Restored 1894 - and 1930. Fieldstone andclunch rubble with limestone and clunch dressings. Tiled roofs. West tower, nave and north and south aisles, south porch and chancel.

West tower C13 rebuilt in 1488. Three stages, embattled parapet and chamfered plinth, central beast gargoyles to main cornice. West window, of three cinquefoil lights in two centred arch, flanked by two niches, the one on the south having a vaulted canopy, but both restored. Restored belfry openings. Half octagonal newel stairturret on north side.

Nave. 1488. Rendered walls and tiled roof with gable of earlier roof visible internally in east wall of tower. Clerestorey of four restored windows each of two cinquefoil lights. South aisle and south porch are also restored. The south door is medieval and of nail studded planks.

The chancel, C13, has rendered walls. In the North wall is a blocked lancet window and a doorway now blocked to a vestry or chantry. In the South wall there is a C13 window of three lights with Y tracery, restored, and a low side window of two trefoil lights. The chamfered two centred arch in the South wall is also C13. In C16 the East window was removed and replaced by one of four lights each in segmental arch with square head. The North aisle retains some C15 fenestration, except for the window at the east end which is modern.

Interior: North and South nave of clunch. Four bays, two centred arches of two wave moulded orders , the outer continuous, the inner on attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases. Nave and aisle roofs are late medieval, though that over the south aisle incorporates later work. The chancel arch is also 1488. The chancel is C13 with some features of late periods. The rear arch of the original C13 east window is visible internally. The three light window in the south wall may be reset. There is a-recess with foiled head in the splay of,the rear arch. Another small recess at the east end of the north wall is C14. The chamfered rear arch of another window in the south wall is C13. There are benched recesses in both north and south walls, and the arches of those on the south side have been partly displaced by later fenestration.

Font: octagonal bowl, C13, with C14 octagonal stem having attached shafts, with moulded capitals rising to crocketed gables. Wall monument in south wall of chancel. Dr. Fogge Newton. Provost of Kings and Rector of Newton, 1612. Clunch. Tablet with inscription flanked by Corinthian columns supporting entablature and strapwork overpiece. Paintin s: much of the interior wall surface except in the tower retains painting of the C13-C16 or early C17, some restored by E.W. Tristram in 1928. Screen: late C15, restored. In three bays with closed lower panels and vertical tracery in upper, open panels.

R.C.H.M.: West Cambs. Mon. (1)

V.C.H. Cambs. Vol. V

Pevsner: Buildings of England p.417

Listing NGR: TL3461355430

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Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 417

Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)

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