Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1127895
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1127895
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Shelford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45872 51872
Details
TL 4551,
19/62
GREAT SHELFORD,
CHURCH STREET (north side),
Church of St. Mary
31.8.62
I
Parish church of C12 and C14 origins, but almost completely
rebuilt in early C15 by Reverend Thomas Patesley, d.1411. In
1798 the west tower collapsed and was rebuilt further to the
east within the nave. In C19 the chancel and the fenestration
of much of the church was restored. Coursed limestone, dressed
clunch, clunch rubble, flint and pebblestone. Low pitched,
embattled roof. Plan of west tower, nave, north and south
aisles and chancel. West tower incorporates old materials.
Three stages with octagonal bell stage. Embattled with needle
spire. West window of clunch, three cinquefoil lights with
vertical tracery. Newel staircase in north west angle. The
windows of the clerestorey and the south aisle have been
restored in C19 with Ketton stone in perpendicular style. The
south porch, C15, has a parish room above. Embattled with
two-stage diagonal buttressing. Original niche with modern
sculpture above restored outer archway. Rib vaulted interior
with bosses, including a pelican.
INTERIOR: Nave now of four
bays. Two-centred arches of two chamfered orders on octagonal
columns with typical high bases and moulded capitals. Moulded
labels with mask stops, some of angels. Chancel arch of similar
date, and with a rood loft staircase opening to the north. The
nave roof is C15 and of alternating tie beam and hammer-beam
construction. Above the chancel arch is a C15 wall painting of
the Doom. In the south aisle is a C14 piscina with trefoil arch
opening. The pulpit is 1636, oak. The tester and staircase are
original. There are early C17 wall monuments in the north and
south walls of the chancel and a brass to Thomas Patesley,
d.1411 in the chancel floor.
Pevsner: Buildings of England p.396;
R.C.H.M: record card;
V.C.H: (Cambs) Vol. VII p.
Listing NGR: TL4587251872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51467
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 396
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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