Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1162944
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1162944
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hemingford Abbots
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 28274 71178
Details
HEMINGFORD ABBOTS CHURCH LANE 1. 5140 (west side) Church of St Margaret TL 28 71 14/5 30.5.58 I 2. Parish Church. C13 with late C14 tower and spire. Stone, rubble and Barnack stone dressings; roofs of lead, copper and slates. Modern gault brick chancel. Tower of three stages with moulded plinth and embattled parapet. The angle buttresses, semi-hexagonal, semi-octagonal and diagonal at each stage are finished with gabled and crocketed pinnacles. Spire rebuilt in 1911 has original spire lights in two upper stages. South porch rebuilt in 1887 incorporating much earlier material. C13 aisles; nave arcades circa 1300. Flying buttresses across aisle and thicker octagonal piers mark original crossing. Fine C15 nave roof with Decorated rood bay, bosses, and angels at ends of principal rafters. In vestry Romano-Brit. sarcophagus found in 1889, and vase of caster-ware (stolen within the last five years). (RCHM Huntingdonshire p 130). Octagonal font with plain arch decoration stands on central circular shaft with four octagonal columns. Stained glass insets with armorial bearings to Dickens and Hildesley families circa 1740, with fragments of earlier glass in east window of north aisle. Modern engraved glass partition in tower arch by David Peace. Early C17 chests with two hinged lids on turned legs.
Listing NGR: TL2827471178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53919
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 130
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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