Church of St Helen
CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1309238
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1309238
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH LANE
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:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Eversden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37488 53288
Details
TL 3753 LITTLE EVERSDEN CHURCH LANE
13/126 22.11.67 Church of St Helen II*
Parish church. C14 except for West tower and North porch which are c.1400 or early C15. Restored 1891-92. Fieldstone, clunch rubble, and dressings of limestone and clunch. Slate roofs. PLan of West tower, nave, chancel and North porch. West tower of three stage with main cornice. Three-stage diagonal buttressing. West window, restored of three cinquefoil lights. Loop window to each side of second stage. Bell-stage with two centred arches and vertical tracery to a two-light opening. The gable of the earlier nave roof is visible in the east wall. Nave. Two C14 windows, restored, in South wall and South doorway, now blocked. Chancel: Rendered walls. East window of three trefoil lights in two centred arch. The windows in the South wall are restored. North porch, c.1400, timber framed incorporating some modern framed incorporating some timber, on rebuilt base of fieldstone. Slate roof. Two bays. Two centered outer arch. Open sided with foiled heads to seven lights. Crown post roof with four way upward and downward bracing to short hollow moulded crown post. The collar purlin is also moulded and there are braces to the collars. Inner archway of clunch. Two centred arch with keeled roll moulding and label. Interior: C17 roof of Queen strut construction. Three bays. The wall posts have carved pendants, Rood loft stair opening on north side of chancel arch. The choir stalls are reset from the chapel of Queens College, Cambridge and are by Bodley.
R.C.H.M.: West Cambs. Mon. (1) Pevsner: Buildings of England p.428
Listing NGR: TL3748853288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52178
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 428
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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