Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1215182
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1215182
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
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 MAGDALENE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Denton and Caldecote
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14083 88420
Details
In the entry for -
DENTON AND CALDICOTE CALDICOTE Parish Church of 4/1 St Mary Magdalen
"Recently converted to dwelling" shall be added as last sentence of the description.
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DENTON AND CALDECOTE CALDECOTE TL 18 NW 4/1 Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene 13.12.57 11*
Parish Church. C12 largely rebuilt in C13 and C14. Restored 1874: E J Tarver. Coursed limestone rubble and ashlar with Barnack and Ketton limestone dressings. Roofs of Collyweston stone slates. South elevation: Nave; two restored C16 windows with two four-centred lights in a square head with moulded labels, C14 doorway with wave-moulded jambs and two-centred arch, C19 west gable bellcote. Chancel; two late C13 lancet windows with moulded labels and mask stops, the western window carried below the transom as a 'low-side' window - now blocked. Interior: chancel arch; C19 round arch, C12 responds with scalloped capitals and C19 abaci. C13 bracket in chancel on north wall; two C16 brackets in nave and one in porch reset. Coffin-lid C13 or C14 in window recess of chancel. Font. C15 octagonal ogee - shaped bowl against a square pier, plain attached stem and moulded base. Locker, C13 in chancel. Piscina in chancel with chamfered jambs and trefoiled heads, fleur-de-lis spandels and detached central shaft. For monuments see RCHM and VCH (in the churchyard are a number of C18 tombstones). The chancel was in ruins in 1542, the C19 bellcote replaces a small west tower. The church is redundant. R C H M Huntingdonshire, p48 V C H Huntingdonshire, p137 Pevsner: Buildings of England, p227 Taylor, A Churches out of use in Cambs., P.C.A.S. 1983
Listing NGR: TL1408388420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400231
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 48
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 137
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 227
Proceedings of the Cambridgeshire Archaeological Society in Proceedings of the Cambridgeshire Archaeological Society, Vol. 72, (1983), 30-47
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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