Parish Church of St. Mary
Parish Church of St. Mary, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1331800
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St. Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Parish Church of St. Mary, High Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1331800
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St. Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Parish Church of St. Mary, High Street
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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. Mary, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brinkley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 62948 54831
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/04/2020
TL 65 SW
9/45
BRINKLEY
HIGH STREET (north side)
Parish Church of St. Mary
19.8.51
GV
II*
Parish church, chancel C13, nave, aisles and tower C14. Clerestorey, walls of aisles and chancel largely rebuilt in 1874 restoration (see vestry report). Architect F. Thompson. Flint, pebble and clunch rubble walls originally plastered, knapped flint restored walls and plinth band to tower. Reused, limestone, clunch and C19 Ketton limestone dressings. C15 red brick porch, originally plastered and red brick repairs. Slate roofs.
Tower with clasping west buttresses of three stages with parapet and moulted plinth band. Belfry window of two-lights, arch rebuilt. Clerestorey of four bays with two-light windows linked at imposts by stone bands. Similar bands link restored aisle windows, possibly copies of original C14 clunch windows of two-lights with quatrefoil at head. North chancel window with transome for 'low side' shutters now with C14 glass fragments. East window C13 partly restored, four-lancet-lights with large quatrefoil. South porch with four-centred moulded brick arch and shafted jambs with moulded capitals and bases. Door to north entrance C15 or earlier.
Interior: nave arcades of four bays with octagonal piers with moulded caps and bases, and two-centred arches of two chamfered orders. Chancel arch raised in C19. Arch braced nave roof, pent aisle roofs, and boarded barrel roof to chancel C19. Altar rails, C18. Stoop and two piscinae in aisles C14. C17 box pew in north aisle, and restored pulpit with carved panels. Modern font. Thirty-hour clock, 1779, in tower. C16 and C17 monuments to Sturville family.
Listing NGR: TL6294854831
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49104
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 139
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 308
Other
Cory, RH , Historical Notes on Brinkley, 1973,
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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