Church of St Augustine
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1318128
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1318128
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, THE GREEN
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 AUGUSTINE, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burrough Green
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 63532 55443
Details
TL 65 NW BURROUGH GREEN THE GREEN
(West Side)
6/29 CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE
19.8.59 Parish Church
GV II*
Parish church C14, chancel C13. Originally with transepts and
chapels flanking chancel; the intersection of south transept
arch with an earlier chancel window indicates the two building
periods. Tower C14 with later belfry windows and parapet.
Porch C15. North and south aisles reroofed with cross gables in
late Cl7 and refenestrated with large cast iron lattice windows
in C19. Chancel and nave roof rebuilt in C17, chancel arch
removed in C19 and two C18 urns placed on responds. Transepts
and chapels demolished in C17 and openings blocked. Chancel
east window modern, replaces earlier five-light window. Walls
of flint and pebble rubble, plastered with dressings of clunch
and Barnack limestone; interior details in clunch. Roofs of
plain tiles. Red brick buttresses and wall repairs. West tower
of three stages has clasping buttresses of three stages. Cross
gabled aisles of three bays with small two-light windows above
large inserted windows. Remaining walls of transept projects
from south aisle. Interior: nave arcade of three bays with
octagonal piers, moulded capitals and bases, and two-centred
arches of two chamfered orders. Reduced chancel arch similar to
nave. Flat plastered ceilings to nave and chancel. Double
piscina with foiled drains and trefoiled arches. C14 sidelia.
Three C14 wall tombs with ogee crocketed canopies, central tomb
originally open to north chapel. Table tombs in north aisle,
C14, with two recumbent figures. Octagonal font dated 1672.
C15 glass reset in east window. Pine pews with raised and
fielded panels.
VCH, Vol. VI, p.146.
Palmer, History of Burrough Green, p43, 1939 (Monuments p56).
Pevsner, Buildings of England, p.309.
RCHM (Cambs notes), 1951.
Listing NGR: TL6353255443
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49123
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Palmer, , History of Burrough Green, (1939)
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 146
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 309
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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