Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1164832
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1164832
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH 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:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Shelford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45345 51664
Details
TL 4551 LITTLE SHELFORD CHURCH STREET (North Side)
Church of All Saints 19/147 31.8.62 II* GV
Parish church of C12 origins but much altered in C14 and C15 and again in 1854 and 1878. Flint, pebblestone, clunch rubble and dressed clunch and limestone with steeply pitched, tiled roofs. Plan of west tower, nave, south chapel and chancel. C14 west tower of three stages, embattled, with needle spine. Three stage set-back buttressing. West window of two lights with reticulated tracery in two centred head. Each side of first stage has an original clunch surround to a cinquefoil window, but the bell chamber openings are restorations. Nave wall, south side has one window of three cinquefoil lights with vertical tracery and another window of Ketton, restored C19. The gabled south porch, 1878, is timbered and plain tiled but the brick plinth incorporates a late Saxon cross-slab with plait work. The south chapel is C15 of flint, pebblestone, clunch and limestone but with brick repairs west wall. It is embattled and has a typical double splayed plinth which also incorporates, in west wall, parts of Saxon cross-slabs. The chancel was restored in 1878, but on the north side is a lean-to north vestry, C15, with an east window of clunch, and an early C18 north wall of narrow gault brick. The north wall of the nave retains an early C12 window above the blocked north doorway of the same period. Interior: The roof is C19. There is an early-C18 tablet and a number of late C18 or early C19 wall monuments on the north wall of the nave which were placed there when the chancel arch was rebuilt in 1854. In north wall of chancel are two recesses. One is C13 and the other C14 with ogee arched head and crocketed pinnacles and the effigy is possibly that of Sir John de Freville, d.1308. The south chapel has two niches, C15, with ogee arched heads with running foliate ornament and crocketed pinnacles to the canopy above a 15 figure, of a saint, seated, of alabaster on a figured bracket. The niche in the north east corner is very mutilated with only part of the figured bracket remaining. The pulpit, 1633, six sided with blank arches and frieze with foliate ornament. C13 font of stone. Octagonal bowl on octagonal principal column with four subsidiary, octagonal columns. The south chapel contains wall monuments of C18 and C19 to members of the Ingle family. _ Pevsner: Buildings of England p.429 R.C.H.M: record card
Listing NGR: TL4534551664
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51551
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 429
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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