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- 1. St Andrew, Alwalton, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church St Andrew's has a nave with aisles, the N arcade of four bays dating from c.1170-80, the S equally long but of three bays and early 13thc. The roof was raised and a clerestorey added in the 15thc. The W tower is 13thc, and later in that century N and S transepts were added. The chancel was rebuilt at around the same time. In 1840-41 the church was restored, the chancel arch rebuilt and a south porch added. The tower was underpinned and thoroughly restored in 1902-3, and the rest of the church in 1904-5. Construction is of stone rubble with Barnack dressings, ashlar in the transepts, and rendered brick for the clerestorey. 12thc features described here are the N nave arcade, the S doorway and the font.
- 2. Holy Cross, Bury, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church Holy Cross has a nave with a three-bay N aisle, chancel, W tower and the remains of a chapel to the W of the tower. Construction is of stone rubble except for the chancel E wall (of ashlar). The nave is early 12thc. and retains its W doorway (now inside the 13thc. tower) and its chancel arch. The N aisle was also added in the 13thc., but its N wall was rebuilt in the 14thc. The chancel and the S nave wall were rebuilt c.1400, and at some later time the chancel was shortened and the E wall rebuilt. The remains at the W end indicate that a chapel was built here c. 1500. The date of its demolition is unknown. There was a restoration in 1889, and the S porch dates from this campaign. Of the early 12thc. work, only the W doorway and the chancel arch remain.
- 3. All Saints, Covington, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church All Saints' is an aisleless church with a 12thc nave, an early 13thc chancel rebuilt with a new chancel arch c.1300, and a W tower of c.1330, altered c.1500. The tower may have had a spire, but if so this was removed c.1500. It now has a pyramidal roof. A chapel was added to the S of the nave in the early 14thc, but it was removed in the 15thc and the entrance arch blocked. There was a major restoration in 1882-83, when a vestry and organ chamber were added to the N of the chancel. The exterior walls are of stone rubble with traces of mortar render on the N wall. Romanesque features are the N nave doorway, the plain S priest's doorway, the font, and various carved stones set into the exterior walls. There are further architectural fragments reset inside the N vestry, high on the S wall, but these were not accessible at the time of the visit.
- 4. 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.
- 5. St James, Little Paxton, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church St James's is a brown cobble church consisting of a 12thc. nave and chancel with a Perpendicular S nave arcade and W tower. The chancel was restored in 1890. The S doorway, reset in the aisle wall and covered by a modern (2000) porch, is 12thc. and contains an important figural tympanum described by Pevsner (1968) as 'barbaric and entertaining'. The chancel arch jambs and imposts are also 12thc., although the arch itself is later and steeply pointed. There is a small 12thc. window head set in the S chancel wall.
- 6. All Saints, Morborne, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church All Saints has a three-bay aisled nave with a S transept, and a square chancel all in ashlar and roughly coursed stone rubble; and a brick W tower. The aisles, chancel and transept all belong to the mid to late 13thc., and the tower to c.1600, but the oldest parts of the magnificent chancel arch date from the 1120s, and the N priest's doorway and the two reset nave doorways date from c.1190. The round-headed aisle windows appear to date from c.1600 rather than 12thc., as does the porch protecting the N doorway. There is a 12thc. plain font, and a single chevron voussoir was discovered built into the W wall of the N nave aisle.
- 7. St Thomas a Becket, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, England
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Originally hospitium of Ramsey Abbey, now parish church 12thc. nave with aisles of seven bays, the W bay curtailed. The clerestorey dates from the 15thc. The one-bay square vaulted chancel originally had aisles, and remains of the S aisle are visible on the exterior. On the N there is a later vestry that continues the line of the nave aisle. The tower is set at the S of the nave's W end, and its erection dates from 1672. The building history is complex and is sketched in section VII, but here it must be noted that the building was originally the hospitium of Ramsey Abbey, and had no W tower. The nave arcades were shortened by just over one bay when the tower was added, and the tower arch appears to have been constructed of parts of the removed arcade including the W respond capitals. Meanwhile the original W doorway, of much the same date as the nave but stylistically unrelated, was presumably moved to its present position as W tower doorway. This is only one of several hypotheses that could be advanced to account for the present appearance of the W end. The tower and the lower parts of the aisle walls and the E façade are of ashlar, while what can be seen of the rest of the chancel is of cobbles. There was an extensive restoration in 1843-44. 12thc work described here comprises the chancel vault and arch, its E windows and the remains of the S chapel; the nave arcades, the W tower arch and the W tower doorway.
- 8. St Leonard, Southoe, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church St Leonard's is built of cobbles, and has a square-ended, late-13thc. chancel and a three-bay aisled nave with a clerestorey. The S arcade dates from the late 13thc., and the N is Perpendicular as is the brick clerestorey. The W bay of the N aisle houses the tower - Perpendicular and of brick with a low tiled roof. The chancel arch indicates that the nave itself is 12thc., and also from this period comes the reset S doorway and a section of string course reset in the W wall of the S aisle.
- 9. St James, Spaldwick, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church St James's has a 12thc. nave to which a four-bay S aisle was added in the late 13thc. The chancel and its arch are also late 13thc., and a S chapel was added c. 1500, when the aisle was rebuilt. Clerestoreys were added to N and S of the nave late in the 14thc. The W tower is also 14thc. work. It has a broach spire with three tiers of lucarnes and rises 152 feet. Construction is of stone and pebble rubble, save the tower and spire (of ashlar) and the nave clerestorey (of brick). Romanesque sculpture is found on the N doorway and the font.
- 10. St Andrew, Steeple Gidding, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church (redundant) St Andrew's has a clerestoried nave with a four-bay S aisle, a square-ended aisleless chancel and a battlemented W tower bearing a spire with two tiers of lucarnes. The building is substantially 14thc., but part of the S doorway is 12thc., as is a holy water stoup set just inside it. The nave and aisle are of squared ashlar; the chancel and tower of stone rubble. The church was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1872-73, and at this time the 15thc. S porch was replaced by the present one. The tower and spire were restored in 1899.
- 11. St John the Baptist, Stibbington, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church From the exterior the church is substantially of 1848-49. The medieval work consists of a nave with 12thc. N arcade and 13thc. S arcade, and a 13thc. chancel with a 12thc. chancel arch. A tower was added in the 15thc., but in 1848-49 this was pulled down, new aisles were built, and the W front was remodelled. At the same time a N transept with an organ gallery and a N vestry were added. The W doorway looks entirely neo-Romanesque, but includes some re-used 12thc. pieces and is described here, along with the early 12thc. chancel arch, the N arcade of c.1170, and the slightly later font.
- 12. St Botolph, Stow Longa, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church The existence of a reset 12thc. doorway confirms that there was a stone church of that date, but there appears to have been a complete rebuilding in the 13thc. The nave with its four-bay aisles belongs to that period, as does the chancel with its broad arch. The E end of the S aisle was widened to form a chapel c. 1330, and in the 15thc. the clerestorey was added. The W tower dates from c. 1500. The main doorway now is in the S aisle, facing the village, and is 13thc. work of some pretension to grandeur. The 12thc. doorway now serving as a priest's door is much too imposing to have fulfilled that function originally, and although it is small for a nave doorway this is what it must have been. The chancel and chancel arch were largely rebuilt in 1880, and the rest of the church was restored from 1888-93, when the south chapel and the east wall of the north aisle were largely rebuilt. In 1901, the upper part of the clerestorey was rebuilt and re-roofed, the aisles repaired and re-roofed, and the south door reset. The north-west corner of the north aisle was partly rebuilt in 1906.The chancel is of ashlar except for the N wall, rebuilt in pebble and reddish ashlar above; the nave clerestorey is of ashlar and the aisles of stone and pebble rubble; the three lower storeys of the tower are of ashlar, and the 4th of stone rubble. The church contains a store of fragments in the nave, including 15th-16thc. window heads, two reliefs with snaking tendrils, a late-medieval base and a section of keeled shaft, but nothing of obviously Romanesque manufacture.
- 13. 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.
- 14. St Margaret, Upton, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church St Margaret's has an aisled, clerestoried nave of three bays, chancel and W tower. The chancel, nave arcades and south aisle are of 13thc. date, but the whole church underwent a complete reconstruction in the 14thc., involving a partial rebuilding of the chancel; a heightening of the aisles and the building of the clerestorey. In the 15thc., the chancel arch was rebuilt and a west tower and spire were built within the nave. At some period, both aisles were shortened at the west end. In 1870-1, Scott rebuilt and widened the N aisle, and a vestry was built on the north side of the chancel, both aisles were restored to their original length, the roofs were renewed, and a south porch was added. The west end of the south aisle was under-pinned and repaired in 1908. The tower, heavily buttressed at the W, has a broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes. The chancel is 13thc., but the chancel arch is Perpendicular. Construction is of coursed ashlar. 12thc. sculpture is represented by the font and the reset S doorway.
- 15. All Saints, Winwick, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church All Saints has an aisled four-bay nave with clerestoreys, a S transept, an aisleless chancel and a W tower supporting a broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes. The S arcade is 13thc. and the N c. 1325. The chancel also dates from the 13thc., but the chancel arch was rebuilt c.1350. The S transept and the tower date from the 15thc. In the 16thc. the clerestorey was added to the nave and the N aisle was rebuilt. There was a major restoration by Slater and Carpenter in 1864, when the south transept, the south aisle clerestorey, the porch and the upper part of the spire were rebuilt. The spire was struck by lightning in 1935 and subsequently restored. Construction is of coursed stone rubble. The S doorway is the only 12thc. feature.
- 16. St John the Baptist, Woodhurst, Huntingdonshire, England
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Parish church The church has a four-bay nave with a S aisle of pebbles, a W bell turret of wood and a brick chancel. The S arcade and S doorway are 13thc., but the nave is late 12c, as indicated by the plain N doorway. The clerestorey is post-medieval, with plain square-headed windows. The chancel and S porch are modern.
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