Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1163557
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1163557
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, MAIN STREET
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 ST MARY, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hardwick
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37229 58607
Details
TL 35 NE HARDWICK MAIN STREET (West Side)
8/141 Parish Church of 31.8.62 St Mary
II*
Parish Church. Late C14, nave, chancel, and tower with one notably earlier C14 chancel window. Restored in 1901 by Mr Rickett of Abingdon directed by Detmar Blow (1867-1939). Walls of field stones with limestone and clunch dressings. Roofs of tiles and slate. South elevation: Tower of three stages offset at each stage, with plinth and embattled parapet and without buttresses. Belfry light round-headed arch in two-centred sealed arch. Ashlar octagonal spire with spirelights. Nave with parapet gable extending as buttress to east, diagonal buttress to west. Three two-light traceried windows, south doorway with chamfered jambs and moulded head, south porch, C15 with semi octagonal shafts to archway with four-centred head. Chancel with diagonal buttress of two stages, one early C14 window of two-trefoiled- lights with net tracery and one window of two cinquefoiled lights with quatrefoil. Interior: chancel arch C15 with semi octagonal shafts and two chamfered orders, tower arch of three, and two chamfered orders. Fine C15 queen-post roofs to chancel and nave with embattled cornices. Font, octagonal bowl with splayed underside on modern base C13. Piscina with four-centred arch, C15. Gothic, cast iron communion rail c.1900. Oak chest C17.
RCHM West Cambs. p127, mon. 1 (plate 102) Pevsner: Buildings of England, p400 VCH, Vol. V, p104
Listing NGR: TL3722958607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51168
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 104
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 400
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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