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- 1. St Peter, Boxworth, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church The church is of pebble rubble, embattled following a restoration of 1640 when the chancel was also rebuilt. It has a nave, possibly of the 11thc. (RCHM), with a 14thc. S aisle, a mortar-rendered unaisled chancel with S vestry and a W tower. There are assorted architectural mouldings and a piece of a 13thc. grave slab reset on the exterior of the S and E walls of the S vestry. The only 12thc. sculpture is on a reset window head in the N nave wall.
- 2. St Botolph, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church 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.
- 3. St Mary Magdalene, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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Originally the chapel of the Leper Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, now a chapel in the parish of Holy Cross St Mary Magdalene is a rare example of a substantially complete 12thc. chapel, surviving on a most unlikely site on the busy Newmarket Road, alongside the disused Barnwell Junction railway station, and opposite Cambridge United football ground. It is a small, two-cell church with a square-ended ashlar chancel, originally vaulted, and a pebble nave with brick repairs. The outer angles of both nave and chancel have stone quoin shafts. The roof was renewed in the 15thc. The chapel fell into disrepair and when Cotman illustrated it in 1819 it was in use as a stable. Sir George Gilbert Scott restored it in 1867, and he was responsible for the main W window. 12thc. sculpture includes the lavish N and S doorways and nave and chancel windows, external and internal decorative friezes, the quoin shafts mentioned above, and the chancel arch.
- 4. St Peter, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church St Peter's is substantially a 12thc. church of nave, chancel and W tower. Aisles were added to the nave in the 14thc. The W tower, with its twin bell openings, angle shafts and tower arch are all recorded here, as is the font. Construction is of flint and pebble with ashlar dressings and the tower has a lead spike. There was a restoration by Ewan Christian in 1883.
- 5. Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
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Benedictine monastery originally, now Cathedral. The church begun by Abbot Simeon in 1082 had a 13-bay aisled nave, four-bay aisled transepts, a crossing with a tower, and a four-bay aisled chancel terminating in an apse. At the W end was a second transept with E chapels and a second tower. A western Galilee porch was added in the 13thc. (1198–1215), and the chancel was extended to the E with a six-bay retrochoir, completed in 1252. In 1321 the Lady Chapel was added to the N of the choir, and a year later the crossing tower collapsed. The octagon, built to replace it, was completed by 1342, and in the same campaign the remaining bays of the 11thc. chancel were replaced. The only above-ground survivals of the original chancel are the two easternmost piers of its straight section. Elsewhere in the building, the N section of the W transept collapsed in the late 15thc., and the NW corner of the N transept in 1699. The former was merely consolidated, the latter rebuilt.
- 6. St Andrew and St Mary, Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church Perpendicular nave with a S aisle of 1877 and N doorway under a porch, and a splendid 14thc. chancel with a N vestry. The W tower is dateable by the heraldry of its windows to the time of Bishop Fordham of Ely (1388–1426). The chancel is ashlar faced, the tower of pebble rendered with mortar and equipped with a stumpy lead spire, the nave of pebble with brick repairs, and limewashed except for the 19thc. S aisle. Into the W end of this, the Victorian builders incorporated a number of 12thc. carved stones, presumably from an earlier church on the site. These are described in Section III.3.d below. The report also describes the plain font.
- 7. All Saints, Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church Haslingfield has a spacious 14thc. aisled nave with a clerestorey with 16thc. windows, an aisleless chancel whose walls must be 12thc. even if the present windows are 14thc., and a Perpendicular W tower with a lead spike. The chancel has a N vestry, and there is a curious S porch with a curved roof whose lead is dated to 1746. All except the chancel is ashlar faced; that is of pebble rubble. The 12thc. feature here described is a string course on the N and S wall of the chancel.
- 8. St Andrew, Histon, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church St Andrew's is a cruciform church with a two-bay aisled nave with clerestory, early 13thc. chancel, crossing of c.1300 and transepts of c.1275 decorated with blind arcading within which Pevsner attributes to masons from St Radegund's Nunnery and St John's Hospital, Cambridge. The crossing tower is Decorated in its upper stages. The nave and chancel have tall ashlar plinth courses and are constructed on stone rubble above. The nave was restored by Bodley (1857) and the chancel by Sir G. G. Scott. The transept is of roughly coursed ashlar and the tower is mortar rendered. 12thc. stones are found reset on the W facade.
- 9. All Saints, Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church 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.
- 10. St Andrew, Impington, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church Aisleless nave, 14thc. chancel articulated on the interior with wide arches enclosing the windows, 14thc. W tower. Construction is of mixed stone and pebble rubble except for the timber-framed Perpendicular S porch. There was a restoration in 1878–79, then in 1995 a large church hall complex was added to the N side, attached to the N chancel vestry. 12thc. stones are found reset in the exterior S wall of the chancel.
- 11. St Peter and St Paul, Little Gransden, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church Nave and aisles of the 13thc. with Perpendicular clerestorey and doorways to N and S, the former with a porch. Aisleless chancel with N vestry, and a tall Perpendicular W tower without a spire. Construction is of rough ashlar rubble and pebbles. The chancel was restored in 1858 and 1875, and in 1885–88 J. P. St Aubyn restored the entire church. As Pevsner comments, "the church looks almost entirely — except for the Perp W tower — as if it had been rebuilt". In the S wall of the tower are two reset chevron voussoirs.
- 12. All Saints, Rampton, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church All Saints has a nave of four bays with S aisle and S porch and a vestry on the N side, a broad, aisleless chancel, and a W tower with a low pyramid roof. The chancel arch is 12thc. in its lower parts but was rebuilt, along with the chancel, c.1330. The S nave aisle dates from the late 13thc., and the tower arch is Perpendicular, although the tower itself must be earlier in its lower stages. The porch is 18thc. and of brick, while the remainder of the church is in a rubble mixture of pebble, rough stone and conglomerate. The upper storeys of the tower are rendered and the nave roof is thatched. Romanesque features described are the chancel arch and stones reset in the exterior E wall of the chancel.
- 13. St Mary, Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church There are two churches on the same site: S of St Mary's is the redundant later church of SS Cyriac and Julitta. St Mary's has a four bay Perpendicular aisled nave with a clerestorey and an aisleless chancel, largely dating to Sir Arthur Blomfield's restoration of 1878 but with blocked round-headed windows to N and S. All of this is attached to a spectacular 12thc. W tower with a later doorway under a porch. The tower has a square lower storey with plain windows to N and S; an octagonal second storey on squinches with more elaborate 12thc. windows to N, S and W; a 16-sided third storey with pointed lancets; and a 16-sided later fourth storey with a modern parapet, all surmounted by a lead spike. There are string courses between storeys. Inside, the tower is open for the first three storeys, but the lowest has been vaulted at some point and the W side of the tower arch cut away. Construction is of flint and pebble rubble.
- 14. St Mary and St Andrew, Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church 12thc. nave and crossing tower, and 13thc. chancel. A S aisle was added to the nave in the 13thc., then in the 15thc. Henry Cyprian's chantry chapel was added to the S of the chancel, contiguous with the S nave arcade. The crossing arches to E and W are also 15thc., but there is evidence of the 12thc. E arch surviving (see below). The top stage of the tower is Perpendicular, and it has a small lead spike. Construction is of flint and pebble with brick repairs. There are 12thc. windows in the N and S faces of the tower, and another in the N wall of the nave. Romanesque features treated here are the font, a tower window carved with a sheela-na-gig, and chevron voussoirs reset outside the chantry chapel.
- 15. St Andrew, Witchford, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church Aisleless nave, chancel and W tower, all in rubble with brick repairs, especially to the tower. The nave has N and S doorways, the former under a brick porch. A date stone over the N doorway indicates a restoration in 1887. The tower is 13thc., and the later nave is canted to connect with it. The apparent date of nave and chancel is early 14thc., but the consecration date of 1376 indicates that it must be later. The only 12thc. feature is a beast head corbel reset in the nave W wall to the N of the tower.
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