Bell Tower, South East of Church of St Giles
BELL TOWER, SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1161163
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- Statutory Address:
- BELL TOWER, SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13377/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1161163
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELL TOWER, SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BELL TOWER, SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tydd St. Giles
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 42733 16448
Details
TF 41 NW TYDD ST. GILES CHURCH LANE 3/72 (East Side)
Bell Tower, south-east GV of Church of St Giles
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Bell tower, late C13 except for bell-stage which is C16 or C17. Barnack limestone to first two stages with bell-stage of red brick with stone quoins. Embattled and of three stages with hipped roof, three stage set-back buttressing and newel staircase in south-east corner. Open sided ground stage with two sides blocked in C17. Each side has two-centred arch of three chamfered orders with half-round columns to responds with moulded capitals and bases. In each wall of first stage is a window (now blocked) of three pointed lights with quatrefoil to head in two-centred arch of two moulded orders, each on an attached shaft. VCH (Cambs), Vol.IV, p.229. Pevsner (Buildings of England), p.475.
Listing NGR: TF4273316448
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48147
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 229
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 475
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