Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, STOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1179413
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, STOW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1179413
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, STOW 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, STOW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stow cum Quy
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 51585 59902
Details
TL 55 NW STOW-CUM-QUY STOW ROAD (East Side)
10/142 Parish Church of 31.8.62 St Mary
II*
Parish church. Nave window C12, early C13 trancept chapels, rebuilt early C14 chancel and nave arcades with north and south aisles. West tower late C14. Clerestorey c.1500. Two chancel windows unblocked in 1665. East wall of chancel rebuilt and chancel reduced in length in 1739. Church restored c.1885 by W. White (1825-1900) when wooden belfry was reconstructed in flint and stone. Flint and rubble walls with Barnack limestone and clunch dressings. Plain tile and lead roofs. North elevation. Chancel C15 window of three cinquefoil lights, and C14 window of two, cinquefoiled ogee-lights. Clerestorey with plain parapet and cornice has four, two-light windows; aisle and north transept with similar parapet and modern gabled porch. Three two-light windows include two, original C14 clunch windows with mouchette tracery, and with large segmental foiled triangle in head. North entrance, restored two-centred arch with continuous moulded jambs. West tower of three stages with plain parapet and two-light belfry window. Interior. Chancel arch of two chamfered orders springing from semi octagonal shafts with moulded capitals. North and south walls have two bays of C14 arcading. Nave arcade of four bays to north and three similar bays to south, early C14 two-centred arches springing from piers with four attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases. The eastern arch of south arcade has dog-tooth ornament and is early C13. Tower arch of two chamfered orders with attached shafts, moulded caps and bases. Part of blocked round headed arch of C12 window of south arcade points to an aisless C12 church. Nave roof early C16 of four bays restored. With hung post trusses and curved braces with arcade tracery in spandrels. False hammer beams over clerestorey window. Carved bosses at intersections of moulded main timbers. Aisle roofs with carved braces. Font C15, octagonal bowl with foiled panels and shield. Two hatchments C18 or early C19. Two wall paintings in nave. Early C15 screen of five bays. For brasses, brass indents, monuments and floor slabs see R.C.H.M. East Cambs. R.C.H.M.: East Cambs p. 92, mon. 1. Hill, A.G. Arch Notes of Ch of Cambs p. 160, 1880
Listing NGR: TL5158559902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50688
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hill, A G, Architectural Notes of Churches of Cambridgeshire, (1880), 160
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
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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