Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1165400
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1165400
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH ROAD
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 BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- The Stukeleys
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 21697 74567
Details
TL 27 SW THE STUKELEYS CHURCH ROAD Great Stukeley
8/140 Church of St. Bartholomew 28.1.58 (Formrly listed as Church of St.Bartholomew, Great stukeley)
GV II*
Parish church of C13 nave, north and south aisles and chancel with C15 west tower. The church replaces a C12 church on the site. The church was restored in 1909-10. C15 west tower of Barnack with some rubblestone. Of five stages on splayed plinth with clasping buttresses. Parapetted with cut down pinnacles at corners. West doorway in two centred arch of two moulded orders. West window of three cinquefoil lights with vertical tracery in two-centred head. Square head to a single trefoil light to each wall of third stage. Bell stage, openings carried down below string of third stage. Two cinquefoil openings in two-centred head. Sundial incised in south-west buttress. Nave of pebble and rubblestone, C13 with C19 plain tiled roof. C15 clerestorey of three windows, each of two cinquefoil lights in square head. South aisle, C13 of pebbles and rubblestone, but with C14 fenestration. Three windows, each of three lights with decorated tracery in shallow pointed arches with moulded labels and return stops. South porch, C15 but altered in C17 or C18. Outer arch remade, round headed arch of two chamfered orders. Inner arch four-centred and of wave and hollow moulded orders. In one wall of porch there is a reset stone carved with Lombardic lettering, probably C14. Chancel. Late C13 of pebble and rubblestone with tiled roof. One C14 window of two trefoil lights in square head and one C15 window (restored) with low side. East end partly rebuilt in C19 with four centred arch to three-light window with intersecting tracery, restored. In north wall one C13 window of two trefoil lights and a C13 doorway with a single chamfered order. Interior. Part of ribbed vaulting to ground stage of west tower remains. Vaulting springs from finely carved beast and grotesque corbels. Tower arch two-centred of two wave moulded orders with responds having attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases. Nave arcade of four bays with west bay of north arcade partly blocked when tower built. Two centred arches on round columns with bell capitals, and hold-water bases. The capitals to the south arcade are round, except for one with carving. C15 chancel arch two-centred and of two chamfered orders with inner carried on half-octagonal attached shafts with octagonal capitals and bases. Chancel with C17 roof of four bays and Queen strut trusses. Wide splays to window openings. C14 piscina in south wall. Trefoil head in two centred arch with projecting drain. Some reused moulded stone in south wall. C13 font. Octagonal with roll moulded lower edge on circular stem with eight detached, subsidiary shafts, some restored, with hold-water bases. RCHM (Hunts) mon.(2), p263. Pevsner: Buildings of England, p257.
Listing NGR: TL2169774567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54611
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 263
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 257
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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