Parish Church of the Holy Cross
PARISH CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211788
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of the Holy Cross
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211788
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of the Holy Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, HIGH 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 THE HOLY CROSS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yelling
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 26221 62468
Details
TL 26 SE YELLING HIGH STREET (North Side) 3/149 Parish Church of 14.5.59 the Holy Cross
- II*
Parish church of which the north arcade c.1180-90 is the oldest surviving part. South aisle and arcade added in late C13, and chancel rebuilt. In late C14 clerestorey added to nave, west tower and south porch built, and walls of chancel altered and raised. Church restored in 1730 and in 1868-69 when the north aisle was rebuilt and the south aisle and porch in 1889. The spire was removed in C19. Walls of rubble with Barnack limestone and clunch dressings. Roofs of slates and lead. South elevation. Tower of three stages with moulded plinth and embattled parapet and grotesque gargoyles at the angles. Bell- chamber window of two trefoiled lights with a quatre-foil. Three, two-trefoiled light windows to clerestorey. Two original C13 windows in south aisle wall, south doorway has two-centred arch with moulded label and mask stops. South porch with outer two-centred archway with hollow-chamfered, moulded jambs. Chancel has two, two-light cinquefoil windows with a quatre-foil in a two-centred head. Interior. North arcade of three bays with two-centred arches supported by circular piers with scalloped capitals and moulded bases. South arcade later with octagonal piers moulded capitals and bases. Chancel arch c.1300 has a two-centred arch with responds of three grouped shafts with moulded capitals and bases. Tower arch, two-centred with two hollow-chamfered orders and middle order springing from a moulded capital. Late C13 double piscanae. Monument in south wall tomb recess late C13. Font C13, square bowl with splayed angles with octagonal stem and moulded base. Sun-dial on south-east buttress of south aisle. RCHM (Hunts) p308. VCH (Hunts) p382. Pevsner: Buildings of England, p372.
Listing NGR: TL2622162468
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396279
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 308
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1932), 382
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 372
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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