Church of St Vigor

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TL 5256 FULBOURN MANOR WALK (North East Side)

Church of St. Vigor 11/31 31.8.62 II* GV

Parish church, C13 chancel and west tower with C14 navel and north and south aisles. The church was substantially restored in 1869 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Clunch, limestone ashlar, flint and pebble stones with tiled roofs. Plan of west tower, nave, north and south aisles, north and south transepts and south porch and chancel. West tower, of four stages with embattled parapet and small splayed plinth. Two stage set-back buttressing. The openings are mostly 1869 restorations; of C13 work, including the west doorway of two chamfered orders in two centred arch with moulded label. The lancet windows in the upper stages have roll moulded labels with fillets. Bell stage has two-openings divided by octagonal mullion with moulded capital and base in two centred arch. Newel staircase in south east angle, now partly removed when clerestorey built. South porch of C14-C15 origins but restored by Blomfield with C13 style outer archway. Two storeys. Nave has restored C15 clerestorey of three windows, each with two trefoil lights in square head. C14 style fenestration to south aisle. The south transept, C15, embattled with beast gargoyles and crocketed pinnacles to the corners. Restored vertical tracery to windows. Chancel is C13 in origin with opposing lancet windows to north and south walls and restored east window of five graduated lancets. The north transept was added in 1869 but the north aisle retains two windows of two cinquefoil lights, in two centred arches, C14 and of clunch. Interior: Nave arcade in five bays. North arcade two centred arches of two chamfered orders on octagonal columns. The chamfers have broach stops. The south arcade is possibly a little later. Similar arches on columns of four shafts with hollows in the angles. Moulded capital and base are good examples of C14 work. Pulpit: C14 of oak, repaired base with inserted C15 panels of St. John the Divine and St. Elizabeth of Hungary to two sides. Octagonal, the rest of the sides are open, and have trefoil cusping to ogee arches in square heads, the spandrels filled with varied carving of birds and flowers. Cadaver tomb, north wall of chancel. John Careway, rector of Fulbourn, 1443. Shallow ogee arch with subcusping and a label terminating in mask stops. The tomb is of oak with six open panels or bays and the cadaver is of stone. Large brass monument in chancel floor to William of Fulbourn, rector, 1377-86 and another, smaller to Geoffrey Bysschop, vicar of All Saints, Fulbourn, another church in the same churchyard as St. Vigors, demolished in C18. Other brasses are in the wall between the south transept and the nave. Large monument, probably clunch, late C16 or early C17, reset; in south transept and obscuring the piscina. Also in south transept a blank marble wall monument to Tyrell Dalton, 1682. Pevsner: Buildings of England p.388 D.G. Crane: A Brief Guide to St. Vigors Church, Fulbourn R.C.H.M: record card

Listing NGR: TL5206856233

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Sources

Books and journals
Crane, D G, A Brief Guide to St Vigors Church Fulbourn, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 388

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