St Andrew, Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire

I Location

Site Location
Cherry Hinton
National Grid Reference
TL 489 571
County
traditional: Cambridgeshire
now: Cambridgeshire
Diocese
medieval: Lincoln; Ely from 1109
now: Ely
Dedication
medieval: not confirmed
now (or name of monument): St Andrew
Type of building/monument
Parish church

II General Description

Exterior from N.

Exterior from N.

Interior to E.

Interior to E.

Church Plan

Church Plan

St Andrew's has a fine ashlar-faced chancel of c.1230–40, a five-bay aisled nave with later 13thc. arcades and a W tower with two plain 12thc. windows in its W wall. The plain jambs of the tower arch are 13thc., but the arch itself is four-centred. The nave has no clerestorey now, the one built in the 15thc. having collapsed in 1792. The chancel walls show evidence of Micklethwaite's 1886 restoration. They are of ashlar at the top, and brick (N), pebble rubble (S), or incongruously pebble-dashed (E) below. Micklethwaite would surely accept no blame for the last. The nave is of pebble rubble, restored by Scott in 1870–75, and the tower of ashlar. The nave has N and S doorways, the S under a porch, the N giving access to a modern church hall on this side. Inside the church are a 12thc. grave slab and a plain font.

III Exterior Features

2. Windows

(i) W wall of tower

A round-headed, single order splayed window, roughly carved from a single rectangular block with recessed spandrels.

(ii) W wall of tower

Tower, W wall, window.

Tower, W wall, window.

A round-headed, single order splayed window as (i).

V Furnishings

1. Fonts

(i)

Font, from E.

Font, from E.

At W end of nave. A plain circular tub on a modern tapered shaft with a low bulbous base. The basin is circular and lead lined.

Dimensions
h. of bowl 0.37 m
ext. diam. of bowl 0.83 m
int. diam. of bowl 0.66 m

2. Tombs/Graveslabs

(i) Tombstone

Tombstone.

Tombstone.

Tombstone, detail.

Tombstone, detail.

Tombstone, lower part, detail.

Tombstone, lower part, detail.

Set vertically in the W wall of the W tower inside, a sandstone trapezium-shaped ridged tomb slab with a human face in low relief set in a dished roundel at the upper end. The head has prominent drilled ears and an egg-shaped head with a pointed chin. Details of the features are too worn to distinguish with any accuracy, but shoulders and some kind of neckwear (or possibly hands) are carved at the bottom of the roundel, and there are signs of headgear, or a halo, at the top. Alongside this to L and R are recessed daisies. The lower part of the slab is carved with delicate foliage scrolls with trefoil leaves. The slab is badly worn, but there is only one major loss, at the lower L corner.

Dimensions
overall l. 1.69 m
w. at top 0.65 m
w. at bottom (est) 0.66 m

VII History

VIII Comments/Opinions

IX Bibliography

  • N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Cambridgeshire, Harmondsworth 1954 (2nd ed. 1970), 316-17.