Parish of All Saints
PARISH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1222799
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH OF ALL SAINTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1222799
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH OF ALL SAINTS
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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 OF ALL SAINTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hamerton and Steeple Gidding
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 13713 79656
Details
TL 1279 HAMERTON HAMERTON
16/55 Parish Church of 28.1.58 All Saints
GV II*
Parish church. C13 reset windows in porch. Chancel, nave, north and south aisles, and south porch early C14. Clerestory, west tower and aisle rebuilt in late C15. South clerestory and porch repaired or rebuilt in 1707, chancel partly rebuilt in 1796 with new steep roof replacing former flat roof. Church restored in 1854, chancel repaired in 1986-7. Walls of Weldon and field stone rubble with dressings and ashlar facings of Ketton Stone. Roofs of tiles, slates and lead. South elevation: West tower of three stages with moulded plinth and embattled parapet with angle gargoyles and quatrefoiled-panelled frieze; paired belfry windows, transomed with two cinque-foiled-lights with a quatrefoil in a four-centred head. Four clerestory windows each of three cinque-foiled lights in four-centred heads. Lozenge shaped panel inscribed 'IB 1707'. Three late C15 aisle windows of three cinquefoiled-lights with vertical tracery in a four-centred head and with moulded reveals and labels. Partly restored C14 doorway with jambs and two centred arch of two hollow chamfered orders with moulded label and mask stops. Porch with two-centred archway of two chamfered orders, the inner order springing from attached shafts with moulded capitals, (reset side-lights of two pointed-lights with a circle in a two-centred head). Two, two-pointed-light chancel windows with plain spandrels in four-centred heads the western window is carried below a transom to form a 'low-side' window. Between the windows a C14 priests' doorway with moulded jambs and two-centred arched head. Interior: Nave arcades of four bays with two-centred arches of two chamfered orders with a moulded label to the nave; octagonal columns and semi-octagonal responds with moulded capitals and bases. Rood loft staircase with upper and lower doorways each with four-centred heads. Tower arch two-centred of three moulded orders the outer continuous and the inner springing from attached round shafts with moulded capitals and partly restored bases. Chancel arch early C14, two-centred of two chamfered orders, the outer continuous and the inner springing from moulded corbels carved with male and female heads. Piscenae in chancel with hollow-chamfered jambs and quatrefoiled drain C14; in south aisle with chamfered jambs and trefoiled head. Font, C15, octagonal bowl with cusped panels and moulded edges, stem with cusped panels and moulded base. For monuments see RCHM, of note two wall monuments to Sir John Bedell and his wife Maude. The nave and aisle roofs incorporate C15 material and carved details including angels holding musical instruments and figures of men, the four Evangelists and the apostles.
RCHM: Huntingdonshire p126 VCH: Huntingdonshire p68 Pevsner: Buildings of England p259
Listing NGR: TL1371379656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54774
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 126
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 68
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 259
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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