Parish Church of St Giles
PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130126
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130126
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES
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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 GILES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barham and Woolley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 13705 75466
Details
TL 17 NW BARHAM AND WOOLLEY BARHAM
7/1 Parish Church of 28.1.58 St Giles
GV II*
Parish church. Late C12 nave and north aisle, chancel and chancel arch c.1300, nave windows C14; restoration c.1850 when porch, north wall of aisle were rebuilt and bellcote added to west gable; west wall and porch rebuilt c.1905 and chancel restored in 1905. Walls of pebble rubble with stone dressings and reused ashlar. Roofs of plain tiles. South elevation: Gable parapets to nave, south porch reconstructed in c.1850 with a two-centred arch of two continuous chamfered orders; south doorway C12 reset with chevron moulded two-centred arch with octagonal shafted jambs each with scalloped capitals and moulded bases, two C14 windows to south wall of three and two lights with C16 head and sunk spandrels. Chancel with two similar windows with Y-tracery in a two-centred head. Interior: Nave arcade of three bays with semi circular arches of two chamfered orders with circular columns, plain capitals (one with water leaf carving) with square abaci; moulded bases with spurs. Chancel arch c.1300, two-centred of two chamfered orders on similar responds with chamfered imposts. Font, C13 with plain circular bowl on rectangular central shaft with chamfered angles and three smaller shafts with moulded capitals and bases. C17 communion table and seats.
RCHM: Huntingdonshire p16 VCM: Huntingdonshire pll Pevsner: Buildings of England p207
Listing NGR: TL1370575466
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54720
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 16
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 11
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 207
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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