Parish Church of All Saints
PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130131
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130131
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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 ALL SAINTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brington and Molesworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 08257 75958
Details
TL 0875 BRINGTON AND MOLESWORTH BRINGTON
21/11 Parish Church of 28.1.58 All Saints
II*
Parish church. Nave C14, and later west tower and south porch added. Chancel rebuilt in C15, and restored in 1675 dated stone in east gable wall of chancel. Complete restoration in 1868 by Slater. Walls of Weldon limestone rubble with Weldon stone dressings, and ashlar facings. Roofs of plain tiles and lead. South elevation: Tower of three stages with moulded plinth and panelled band of trefoils and quatrefoils at base of broached octagonal spire. Single trefoiled-light window in second stage and belfry window of two trefoiled-transomed-lights with quatrefoil, moulded label and grotesque stops. Grotesque heads at base of broaches to spire. Three tiers of spirelights decreasing in height with gabled heads. Nave with embattled parapet, with two eastern C14 windows of two trefoiled-ogee-lights in a square head with moulded label and head stops, western window c.1340 of three trefoiled ogee- lights with flowing tracery and two-centred head with moulded label and mask-stops. C14 south doorway with two-centred arch of two moulded orders. South porch with two centred archway of two chamfered orders and moulded label. Chancel with two similar C15 windows of two cinquefoil-lights in four-centred head with moulded label. Priest's doorway c.1675 restored with chamfered jambs and square moulded label with carved stops. Interior: Tower arch two-centred of three chamfered orders with inner orders springing from attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases. Chancel arch, C15, two-centred with two chamfered orders, the inner order springing from attached half-round shafts with moulded capitals and bases. In south wall a square headed squint; in north wall the upper doorway of the rood loft staircase projects from the wall. Seat formed from extended sill of south-east window. Piscina, C13 reset with shafted jambs and central shaft with moulded capitals and bases. Font. C13 plain oval tapering bowl with C14 octagonal to square base. Font cover octagonal, pyramidal with turned finial, C17. North door C16 with battens and strap hinges. Nave roof dated 1674 of four bays, low pitched with cambered tie beams and curved braces with trefoiled spandrels, carved bosses to tie beams. Glass in three nave windows, C14 fragments. For monuments and floor slabs see RCHM.
RCHM: Huntingdonshire p27 VCH: Huntingdonshire p20 Pesvner: Buildings of England p213. Woodger, A: Huntingdonshire Church Towers Archaeol J 141 1984
Listing NGR: TL0825775958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54730
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 27
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 20
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 213
Archaeological Journal in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 141, (1984)
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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