Parish Church of St Mary and the Holy Host of Heaven

Parish Church of St Mary and the Holy Host of Heaven, High Street, Cheveley, CB8 9DG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1318059
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1959
List Entry Name:: Parish Church of St Mary and the Holy Host of Heaven
Statutory Address:: Parish Church of St Mary and the Holy Host of Heaven, High Street, Cheveley, CB8 9DG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1318059
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: Parish Church of St Mary and the Holy Host of Heaven
Statutory Address 1:: Parish Church of St Mary and the Holy Host of Heaven, High Street, Cheveley, CB8 9DG

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Parish Church of St Mary and the Holy Host of Heaven, High Street, Cheveley, CB8 9DG

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Cheveley
National Grid Reference:: TL 68475 60838

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/12/2019

TL 66 SE 3/64

CHEVELEY HIGH STREET (east side) Parish Church of St Mary and the Holy Host of Heaven (Formerly listed as Parish Church of St Mary and the Holy Ghost in Heaven, previously listed as Church of St Mary) 19.8.59

GV I Parish church. Early C14, cruciform plan, upper stage of tower and belfry stair turret late C14, early C15. South porch C15. Flint with limestone and clunch dressings and interior details. Plain tile gable parapetted roofs.

Clasping buttresses to transepts, angle buttresses to west gable end and chancel. Chancel with two-light traceried windows in two-centred arches with sealed lancet window in north wall. South transept one three-light window, polygonal stair turret rises above plain parapet of octagonal belfry above square tower. Two-light belfry window with quatrefoil. Two nave windows of three, trefoiled-lights in two-centred arches. South porch has niche above two-centre arched opening with attached shafts and moulded capitals and bases. Label with head stops.

Interior; fine early C14 crossing with three attached columns to each jamb with deeply moulded capitals and bases; steep, chamfered two-centred arches. Wooden quadrapartite vault with tracery. Nave, transepts, and chancel roofs C15, possibly partly restored, with embattled decoration, pierced spandrels to tie beams, and carved angels in each bay to chancel. Nave roof arch braced. Crossing piers with carved brackets for statues or candles, late C14. Two tomb recesses in south transept. Piscina and wide sedelia or Easter sepulchre in chancel. Piscina in north transept and lancet window in east wall.

Font, octagonal C15 with painted panels. Screen late C14 or early C15 restored with single traceried lights, centre doorway ogee-headed. Monuments, in chancel to Symon Folkes, d.1642, kneeling figure with columns and open pediment, in north transept to Martin Folkes, d.1828, by Parkinson, Newmarket. Stained glass in chancel by Kempe.

Listing NGR: TL6847560838

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Legacy System number:: 49148
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 319

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.