Church of St Etheldreda

CHURCH OF ST ETHELDREDA, MARCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1160972
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:
Church of St Etheldreda
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST ETHELDREDA, MARCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1160972
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:
Church of St Etheldreda
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST ETHELDREDA, MARCH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST ETHELDREDA, MARCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Fenland (District Authority)
Parish:
Elm
National Grid Reference:
TF 43123 02230

Details

TF 40 SW ELM MARCH ROAD 14/16 (East Side) Coldham

Church of St Etheldreda

II

Church, built 1876 in early English style. Coursed rubblestone with tiled roof. West wall with repaired bell-cote above west window of two trefoil lights with foiled head in two-centred arch. nave of three bays, one with a two light window with a foiled head in a two-centred arch and one with three trefoil lights with a foiled head in a two-centred arch. South porch, gabled, with two-centred outer arch, moulded and with attached shafts. Chancel, tiled. Two windows of one trefoil light in two-centred head and an east window of three trefoil lights with a foiled head. North vestry with a stone stack. Interior. Chancel arch of two moulded orders. Outer roll moulded on attached shafts with foliate capitals and moulded bases, inner chamfered on three grouped, attached colonettes with half octagonal capitals and carried on corbels. In south wall of chancel, piscina and double sedilia. Cinquefoil cusping to two-centred arches to each. Retable of stone. Two-centred arches to five bays divided by shafts of marble. VCH (Cambs) Vol.IV, p.185.

Listing NGR: TF4312302230

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Legacy System number:
48089
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 185

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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