PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1163297
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1163297
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Pampisford
National Grid Reference:: TL 49775 48248

Details

TL 4848 PAMPISFORD CHURCH LANE (West Side)

10/202 Parish Church of St John the Baptist 22.11.67 with High Street GV II*

Parish church. C12 nave, south doorway with noteworthy carved tympanum, north arcade inserted c.1200. Chancel early C13, west tower c.1330 added to shortened nave; wide tower arch in anticipation of a larger tower. Chancel arch rebuilt and north aisle widened C15. Restorations in 1850, and 1856 by P.C. Hardwick (1822-90) when the south porch was added; 1876-91, and 1893-7 by Sir Arthur Blomfield (1829-99), vestry and organ chamber. Walls of flint rubble with clunch and limestone dressings, red plain tiled roofs, small lead covered spire. South elevation: Tower of two stages with embattled parapet and angle buttresses of two stages rising to belfry height. Belfry window of two trefoiled lights with quatrefoil in two centred arch; lancet window blocked by clock face. Nave and chancel roofs with parapet gables and cross finials. C12 south-west quoin to nave. Three restored C19 windows, South doorway C12, jambs each with C19 detached shafts with original capitals, east with leaf ornament and west with small volutes, and chamfered abaci, round arch with carved tympanum with design of ten arches each with a figure or object (P.C.A.S.) depicting incidents connected with the life and death of St John the Baptist. South porch by Hardwick, wooden, Gothic style with steep roof and deep bargeboards, lights with tracery. Gabled, buttresses to east quoin and to east walls of chancel. Chancel with two C19 windows and priest's door. Interior: Nave arcade of four bays cut into C12 wall, two-centred arches with narrow chamfered edges. First and third octagonal, centre pier circular, all with octagonal to square moulded caps, first pier has leaf ornament at angles of cap, base of central pier roll-moulded; north aisle rebuilt C19. Tower arch two-centred of three chamfered orders with semi octagonal attached shafts. Chancel arch late C15 two-centred of two hollow-chamfered orders, at the apex a carved corbelled bracket. The responds have a moulded capital carved with paterae, and moulded base. Font C12 retooled, octagonal bowl with round corner pieces to squared base with C19 pedestal and plinth. Font cover C15 octagonal ogee with crocketed ribs and band of quartrefoils at base, C16 figures of St John baptising Christ added later. Screen, late C15 of three main bays with pierced tracery and transomed foiled panels. Two C17 chairs. C19 hatchment in north aisle. Monuments in chancel, Richard Nash 1805 and in north vestry reset stone to Nash family 1805-1829; north aisle wall monument to Margaret wife of Wm Parker Hamond of Pampisford Hall 1845; recessed stone slab with cusped arch and crocketed label and finial to Wm Parker Hamond 1812 and Mary his wife 1850; white tablet surmounted by draped urn to Caroline Mackenzie daughter of Mrs Parker Hamond 1841. Nave roof restored by Hardwick and chancel roof by blomfield. Glass by Kempe.

R.C.H.M. Report 1951 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p111-2 Colvin. English Architects, p263 Pevsner. Buildings of England, p448

Listing NGR: TL4977548248

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Legacy System number:: 52034
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M , A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954), 263
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 448
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 111-2
Other
Reports on Buildings in the Parishes of Babraham Great Abington Hildersham Linton Little Abington and Pampisford Cambridgeshire, (1951)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.