Parish Church of St Giles
PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1215533
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1215533
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES, 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holme
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 18932 87968
Details
HOLME CHURCH STREET TL 1887 (North Side) 12/34 Parish church of St Giles 13.12.57
GV II*
Parish Church. Reused C12 and C13 material from original parish church demolished and rebuilt in 1862 by Edward Browning. Hammer dressed limestone walls; plain tiled roofs with parapet gables. South elevation: bellcote to west end with double linked gables with two bells. Four clerestory windows with tracery and south aisle windows with square-headed arches and tracery in Decorated style. South porch and doorway incorporating early material in jambs of two-centred arches. Two chancel windows of two lancet-lights with stopped labels. Interior: nave arcades of three bays extended by one bay to west incorporating the original two-centred arches supported on octagonal and circular columns with moulded and cushion capitals and moulded bases. Two-centred chancel arch of two chamfered orders springing from moulded corbels; organ chamber with two-centred archway on north side of chancel. Font, plain octagonal bowl recorded in 1851 (VCH). For monuments and wall plaques see (VCH).
V C H Huntingdonshire, p187 R C H M Huntingdonshire, p140 Pevsner: Buildings of England, p266 Glatton, Holme and Denton, estate map for Wm Wells 1770 H.R.O.
Listing NGR: TL1893287968
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400787
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 140
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 187
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 266
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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