Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, RECTORY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1128556
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, RECTORY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1128556
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, RECTORY 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 MARY, RECTORY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bluntisham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37248 74456
Details
BLUNTISHAM RECTORY ROAD 1. 5140 (south side) Parish Church of St Mary TL 37 SE 8/1 30.5.58 I 2. Parish Church of Bluntisham-cum Earith. Apsidal chancel and chapel C14, west tower late C14, nave and aisles mid C15 with later porches and buttresses. Restoration and repair carried out in C17 and C19. Stone and pebble rubble walls with Ketton and Barnack stone and clunch dressings. Some brick in upper stages of tower. Lead and old plain tile roofs. Tower of three stages with embattled parapet and stair turret in NE angle. Octagonal spire with ranges of alternating spire lights with gabled heads. Aisles extend to face of tower with wave moulded plinth band interrupted by later porches and buttresses. Nave clerestory with four windows each with two cinquefoil lights in four centred heals. Apsidal end to chancel with tripartite, lead covered, sloping gable roofs with two trefoiled light windows in each face. Two porchesto south and north bear inscription 1656 GPITS and TCI. Interior: Three tower arches with wave-moulded orders of clunch. chancel arch and north and south arcades of four bays have two centred arches. Moulded columns with four attached shafts, moulded capitals and bases. Fine C15 nave roof of four bays, wall posts stand on carved stone corbels. Early C16 door of oak with two centred head, and nail studded oak plank door to ringing chamber. Barnack stone font with quatre foil panels and underside panelled and carved with 'green men'. (RCHM Huntingdonshire p 17. Pevsner N p 210).
Listing NGR: TL3724874456
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53767
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 17
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 210
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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