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- 1. St Helen, Folksworth, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church St Helen's has an aisleless nave with a large S transept, no tower but a bellcote on the W gable, and a chancel with N vestry. The chancel, facing the road, is neo-Romanesque work of 1850, replacing an 18thc. chancel, which in turn replaced the original. The nave is 12thc. and the transept dates from c. 1300. Construction is of coursed rubble except for the ashlar chancel. The restoration of 1850 involved the rebuilding of the chancel and vestry, the rebuilding of the N wall of the nave, and the addition of the bell-cote. There is a 12thc. chancel arch and N doorway.
- 2. St Martin, Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church St Martin's has a tall aisled and clerestoried nave, a lower chancel and a W tower. The N and S nave aisles extend to the E end of the chancel, forming N and S chapels, the N now in use as a vestry. Of the present building, the tower dates from the end of the 13thc., and the chancel and N chapel to the early 14thc. There is evidence for a 13thc. N aisle, but around 1500 it was completely rebuilt, and a S aisle, S chapel and porch were added. The porch was rebuilt in 1652 and the N aisle in 1673 and again in 1887, and at this time the N chapel was converted into a vestry. R. Hutchinson, the architect responsible, collected such earlier remains as he found and displayed them in the walls. The E wall of the chancel was rebuilt in 1910. Currently (2004) the pinnacles of the tower, damaged in recent storms, are under repair. The nave is constructed of stone rubble, and the chancel of stone and pebble rubble except for the ashlar W wall of 1910. The S aisle and its porch are of ashlar, but the N aisle is of brick except for the W bay, of rubble. The tall lower storey of the tower is of pebble rubble, and the upper storey of ashlar.
- 3. St Michael, Toseland, Huntingdonshire, England
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Chapel St Michael's has a rectangular nave with a W bellcote and a rectangular chancel with a N vestry. It is constructed of brown cobbles except for the N nave wall, which is brick. The church fell into disrepair and by the middle of the 19thc. it had lost its chancel and consisted simply of a nave with a hipped roof surmounted by a central bell-turret. The N wall of the nave appears to have been replaced in the 18thc. In 1873, the church was thoroughly rebuilt by Arthur Blomfield of London at a cost of £933, raised by subscription. The N wall and the part of the S wall, including the 12thc. doorway and window, were retained, and the remainder rebuilt on the old foundations using cobbles and Bath stone facings. The chancel, of course, was entirely rebuilt. The vestry was added in 1897. Despite having the general appearance of a neo-Norman building, much of the fabric of the nave is genuinely Romanesque. The chancel arch includes important early-12thc. capitals, while the later S doorway is very elaborate. A 12thc. S nave window survives, and the head of a similar window is reset in the N nave wall.
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