Church of St Giles
CHURCH OF ST GILES, POTTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317879
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, POTTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317879
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, POTTON 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:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, POTTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tadlow
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 27997 47613
Details
TADLOW POTTON ROAD TL 24NE (North side) 7/76 Church of St Giles 22.11.67
II*
Parish church. C13 nave and chancel, and circa 1400 west tower. Restored c,1860 under supervision of W Butterfield. Fieldstone, clunch rubble with limestone and clunch dressings. Plain tiled roofs. West tower, nave, chancel and north vestry and south porch. West tower of three stages. West doorway in pointed arch with continuous moulding and square head having dagger tracery to the spandrels. West window of two cinquefoil lights in four centred arch with label. Bell stage has two similar openings in four centred arch. Aisleless nave with south wall refenestrated, c14-C15, three windows of two cinquefoil lights with vertical tracery in depressed arch. South doorway C13. Two centred arch of three moulded orders the outer two carried on nook shafts with restored capital and base. Chancel has two lancets, restored C19, in north and south walls and rebuilt east wall with three C19 graduated lancets. There are two C13 lancets in north wall of nave. Interior: West tower added on a corrected orientation. Two centred tower arch of two chamfered orders, the inner on engaged shaft with moulded capital and base. Deep splays to rear arches of C13 lancets in north wall. Roof rebuilt C19. Chancel has been remodelled internally in c.1860 and has polychrome tiles and painted boarded ceiling. Font by Butterfield. Grey marble octagonal bowl with panelled sides having raised gables in relief and intaglio quatrefoil of white marble. Broach stopped octagonal stem.
RCHM: West Cambs mon (1) Pevsner: Buildings of England p469
Listing NGR: TL2799747613
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52794
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 469
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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