St Botolph, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
I Location
- Site Location
- Cambridge
- National Grid Reference
- TL 448 582
- County
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traditional:
Cambridgeshire
now: Cambridgeshire - Diocese
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medieval:
not confirmed
now: Ely - Dedication
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medieval:
not confirmed
now (or name of monument): St Botolph - Type of building/monument
- Parish church
II General Description
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Exterior, view from SW.
The church is substantially of the 14thc. and consists of a nave with aisles of c.1400 to which a S porch and S chapel were added in the mid-15thc.; an aisleless chancel rebuilt by Bodley in 1872; and a W tower with boldly projecting angle buttresses dating from c.1400. Construction is of pebble and stone rubble with ashlar dressings. The only 12thc. carvings are chevron voussoirs reset in the N and S walls of the tower.
III Exterior Features
3. Exterior Decoration
d. Miscellaneous
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W tower, N face, 2nd storey with stones 1 and 2.
(i) Chevron voussoir
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W tower, N face, 2nd storey, stone 1.
On the N wall of the tower, E of the rectangular second storey window, a chevron voussoir consisting of a single centrifugal roll with cogwheel edge.
(ii) Chevron voussoir
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W tower, N face, 2nd storey, stone 2.
On the N wall of the tower, W of the rectangular second storey window, a chevron voussoir similar to (i).
(iii) Chevron voussoir
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W tower, S face, 2nd storey with stones 3 - 6.
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W tower, S face, 2nd storey, stones 3 and 4.
On the S wall of the tower, W of the rectangular second storey window, and partly obscured by a drainpipe, a chevron voussoir similar to (i).
(iv) Chevron voussoir
On the S wall of the tower, E of (iii) and W of the rectangular second storey window, a chevron voussoir similar to (i).
(v) Chevron voussoir
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W tower, S face, 2nd storey, stones 5 and 6.
On the S wall of the tower, just to the E of the rectangular second storey window, a chevron voussoir similar to (i).
(vi) Chevron voussoir
On the S wall of the tower, E of (v) and alongside the SE angle buttress, a chevron voussoir similar to (i).
VII History
VIII Comments/Opinions
IX Bibliography
- N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Cambridgeshire, Harmondsworth 1954 (2nd ed. 1970), 223-24.