Parish Church of St Helen
PARISH CHURCH OF ST HELEN, MORBORNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317442
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST HELEN, MORBORNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317442
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST HELEN, MORBORNE ROAD
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 HELEN, MORBORNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Folksworth and Washingley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14644 90356
Details
FOLKSWORTH AND WASHINGLEY MORBORNE ROAD TL 19 SW (West Side) 4/92 Parish Church of 13.12.57 St Helen II* Parish church. Chancel and nave c.1150, south transept c.1300 and C16 porch. Chancel rebuilt by Robert Pupplett, rector 1702-1706; rebuilt in Neo-Norman style with north vestry in 1850, north nave wall rebuilt and bell-cote added to west gable. Walls of roughly coursed rubble limestone with dressings of Barnack stone. C20 plain tiled roofs. South elevation: Nave doorway with four-centred head and moulded label; C14 two trefoiled-ogee-light window to west with a square head, moulded label and head stops. (North doorway c.1150 with an outer round arch enclosing a diaper patterned tympanum; jambs with continuous moulded abaci forming imposts and detached shafts with scalloped capitals and moulded bases). South porch with four-centred outer archway of two continuous chamfered orders and large resited gargoyle. South transept c.1300 window of three graduated trefoiled lights in a two-centred head. Chancel, three similar single-light windows with rounded heads. Interior: Chancel arch, semi-circular of two moulded orders with chevron ornament; responds each with two detached shafts with capitals carved with scrolls or scallops, with a human face, and festoons with a face; hollow chamfered abaci continuous along wall. Piscina in south transept with chamfered jambs and two-centred head, sexfoiled drain c.1300. Font, c.1500 octagonal bowl on octagonal stem with square base. C13 coffin lid with scrolled crosses.
VCH Huntingdonshire p173 RCHM Huntingdonshire p97 Pevsner Buildings of England p247
Listing NGR: TL1464490356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54900
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 97
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 247
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 173
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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