All Saints, Horseheath, Cambridgeshire

I Location

Site Location: Horseheath
National Grid Reference: TL 614 475
County: traditional: Cambridgeshire
now: Cambridgeshire
Diocese: medieval: not confirmed
now: Ely
Dedication: medieval: not confirmed
now (or name of monument): All Saints
Type of building/monument: Parish church

II General Description

: Exterior general view from SE

: Church Plan

Wide, aisleless nave with big Perpendicular windows and Decorated chancel and W tower. Doorways to N and S, that on the N with a blocked porch converted into a washroom; that on the S with a porch belonging to Rowe's restoration of 1875. Construction is of flint and pebble with brick repairs. None of the standing fabric is Romanesque, but there are large numbers of chevron voussoirs built into the walls, and one loose one.

III Exterior Features

3. Exterior Decoration

d. Miscellaneous

(i) Type A. Set in nave W wall, S of tower.

: Exterior reset stone 1 (chevron voussoir)

Dimensions

max. w.	0.13 m
min. w.	0.11 m
l. of face	0.165 m

(ii) Type B

: Exterior reset stones 2 and 3 (chevron voussoirs)

Junction of nave W wall and angle buttress, concealed behind water butt. Not measured.

(iii) Type A

Junction of nave W wall and angle buttress, immediately under (ii), concealed behind water butt. Not measured.

(iv) Type A

: Exterior reset stone 4 (chevron voussoir)

W wall of nave, N of tower. Too high to measure.

(v) Type A

: Exterior reset stones 5 and 6 (chevron voussoirs)

W wall of nave, N of tower and high above (iv). Too high to measure.

(vi) Type A

W wall of nave, N of tower and alongside (v). Too high to measure.

(vii) Type C. On NW corner of N nave vestry.

: Exterior, N nave vestry from NW

: Exterior reset stones 7 and 8 (chevron voussoirs)

Dimensions

l. of face	0.21 m
l. of soffit	0.15 m
max. w.	0.15 m
min. w.	0.15 m

(viii) Type C

On NW corner of N nave vestry, immediately under (vii).

Dimensions

l. of face	0.18 m
l. of soffit	0.16 m
max. w.	0.15 m
min. w.	0.15 m

(ix) Type B. On NE corner of N nave vestry.

: Exterior reset stone 9 (chevron voussoir)

Dimensions

max. w.	0.14 m
min. w.	0.115 m
l. of face	0.20 m

(x) Type A. Nave S wall towards E end.

: Exterior, S nave wall, E end

: Exterior reset stone 10 (chevron voussoir)

Dimensions

max. w.	0.15 m
min. w.	0.12 m
l. of face	0.165 m

(xi) Type A

: Exterior reset stone 11 (chevron voussoir)

Nave S wall towards E end, above (x). Too high to measure.

IV Interior Features

5. Interior Decoration

c. Miscellaneous

(i) Chevron voussoir type B

: Interior reset stone 1 (chevron voussoir)

E wall of nave to N of chancel arch, behind pulpit.

Dimensions

max. w.	0.17 m
min. w.	0.16 m
l. of face	0.15 m

(ii) Type A

: Interior reset stones 2 and 3 (chevron voussoirs)

High on E wall of nave to N of chancel arch. Too high to measure.

(iii) Type A

High on E wall of nave to N of chancel arch. Too high to measure.

VI Loose Sculpture

(i) Chevron voussoir type A

: Loose stone 1 (chevron voussoir)

: Loose stone 1 (chevron voussoir)

Loose on N nave windowsill. max. w. 0.14 m min. w. 0.125 m l. of face 0.20 m depth of block 0.21 m (but damaged at back)

VII History

VIII Comments/Opinions

Johnson noted 18 reset voussoirs, but not the loose stone. She also noted part of a font used as a corner stone for the N vestry. The voussoirs are extremely irregular in size, and it is impossible to estimate whether they are from different orders of a single doorway or from two separate doorways. The Type C voussoirs appear to be jamb stones.

IX Bibliography

A. Borg, "The Development of Chevron Ornament", Journal of the British Archaeological Association, XXX, 1967.
G. R. Bossier, Notes on the Cambridgeshire Churches. 1827, 49.
The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Cambridgeshire (Architectural Institute of Great Britain and Ireland), Oxford 1852, 157.
C. H. Evelyn-White, County Churches: Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. London 1911, 103-04.
F. S. L. Johnson, A Catalogue of Romanesque Sculpture in Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. M.Phil (London, Courtauld Institute), 1984, 264-67.
D. and S. Lysons, Magna Britannia. Cambridgeshire II, pt I, London 1808, 216-18.
C. E. Parsons, All Saints Church, Horseheath. Cambridge 1911.
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Cambridgeshire, Harmondsworth 1954 (2nd ed. 1970),
The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, VI, 1978, 78-79.