Parish Churh of St Andrew

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TL 3668-3768 SWAVESEY STATION ROAD (North West Side)

14/121 Parish Church of 31.8.62 St. Andrew

GV I

Parish church; C11 and C12 wall fragments and quoins of nave and chancel of original Benedictine priory church; tower and North aisle C13, South aisle rebuilt and chantry chapel and South porch c.1300; chancel extended to full length of chapel and alterations to aisle windows early C14. Nave arcade, clerestory and roofs mid to late C15 with window tracery inserted into some original openings. Restorations C17, early C19, and 1865 by W.M. Fawcett, masonry said to have been used from priory ruins. Walls of Barnack limestone and limestone rubble with brick repairs, clunch interior details. Roofs of lead. South elevation. Aisles extend to west face of tower; tower of four stages with angle buttresses, embattled parapet with corner gargoyles and pair of two cinquefoil-light belfry windows with quatrefoil and lower late C13 Y-traceried blocked window. Clerestory with plain parapet and six, two-light cinquefoil windows in four-centred arches. Tall, Y-traceried aisle windows with replaced C14 foiled transomes; chantry chapel south windows with interlaced Y-tracery and one replaced in C15, low-side window C14. Continuous moulded string to aisle including buttresses. Fine South door of five continuous roll- and fillet-moulded orders terminating in moulded bases with scroll-moulded label, and mask and foliage stops. South porch with two-centred arch, mask stops to label with moulded caps and bases to inner moulded order. Rainwater heads dated 1806. Interior. Nave arcade of six bays with slender piers continuing as pilasters to clerestory. Chancel and tower arches early C14 of two chamfered orders with moulded caps and bases, similar two-bay chancel arcade. Fine C14 sedilia and piscena with foiled drain, foliate finials to ogee arches; small locker to east and two north doors partly blocked by raised C19 floor. South aisle clunch piscina with deeply moulded trefoiled head. String with roll-moulding broken by insertion of 'low-side' window, and in chantry by C15 sedilia which cuts into jamb of original sedilia or mural monument. Roofs, C15 with braced tie beams, moulded principals with bosses at intersections; head corbels in chantry chapel, carved gilded angels to chancel and C17 drop finials added to chancel roof, aisle roof with dated tie beam 1629. Font With octagonal bowl and stem with shields in foiled panels. C13 tomb stones in North aisle. Nineteen C15 benches, moulded ends with paterae and carved finials with copies in 1866/7 by Rattee and Kett. Two C15 chancel stalls with replaced seats. Monuments. Charlotte Francis 1833, classical composition black and white marble. In South chapel to Anne Kempe, Lady Cutt, first wife of Sir John Cutt of Childerley 13th March 1641. Marble chest with framed, rounded panel and two folding doors each held open by life size female figures carrying oval shields of arms; work of Nicholas Stone master-mason to Charles I. Poor box with three locks near South doorway. Medieval altar stone framed in altar table C19. Five-light restored East chapel window, memorial to Thomas Cockayne, Lord of Manor, 1852. C19 Reredos 1866 by G.E. Street, and memorial window to John Layer (1632) and William Cole (1742-1782) by Francis Skeat 1967. Cole and Layer. MSS CRO Hill A.G. Cambridgeshire Churches p.99 1880 Andrews H. RIBA Journal. VII pp.241-2, 1900 Palmer W.M. Cambs and Hunts Arch. Soc. Vol.1 V.C.H. Vol. pp.197,315 Pevsner. Buildings of England p.468 Ravensdale J.R. History on Your Doorstep BBC 1982 Scott P. Swavesey Church and Village 1982

Listing NGR: TL3627169382

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Sources

Books and journals
Scott, P, Swavesey Church and Village, (1982)
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 197 315
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 468
Hill, A G, Architectural Notes of Churches of Cambridgeshire, (1880), 99
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archaelogical Society Transactions in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archaelogical Society Transactions, Vol. 1, ()
Royal Institute of British Architects Journal in Royal Institute of British Architects Journal, Vol. 7, (1900), 241-2

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