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- 1. Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church 12thc. circular aisled nave with unlighted gallery and central ribbed dome on a lighted drum. To this is attached a rectangular two-bay aisled chancel, originally of the 13thc. The present appearance owes much to Salvin's restoration of 1841: particularly the chancel, the W doorway, the gallery capitals and the entire drum and dome of the nave, which replaced a 15thc. bell-storey. The church is built of ashlar.
- 2. Little St Mary (St Mary the Less), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church The present church consists of a single-unit mid-14thc. rectangular church with no aisles, a S vestry with a crypt below and a stair above linking it to Peterhouse College, a S chapel of 1931 by T. H. Lyon , a 19thc. S porch at the W end of the nave, a 19thc. NW porch, and a W choir vestry, added in 1892-93 and now used as a parish room. The E window tracery reveals workshop connections with the Lady Chapel at Ely. There was a major restoration by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1857-62, and the interior was whitewashed in the 1950s by Stephen Dykes-Bower. None of the present fabric is any earlier than the 14thc., but there is a nook shaft with chevron ornament set into a corner of the NW porch, presumed to be from a 12thc. church on the site.
- 3. 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.
- 4. St Mary, Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church The church consists of an aisled nave with a clerestorey and a massive S porch, an aisleless chancel with N vestry, and a W tower. Construction is largely of flint and pebble rubble, although the tower is rendered. Of this, everything except the nave aisle W windows and doorways and the piscina, which are 14thc., belongs stylistically to the early 15thc., and must represent the church erected in 1387, at the sole cost of Thomas Patesle, then vicar, who is buried in the nave. The tower is square in its lower storey and octagonal above, with a stumpy lead spire, but this form is not original. The medieval tower collapsed in 1798 and was rebuilt to this design using old materials. At the same time the nave seems to have been reduced from its original five bays to the present four. The only Romanesque features are carved stones, presumably from the pre-Patesle church, arranged to form a niche above an altar.
- 5. 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.
- 6. St James, Stretham, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church Aisled nave with clerestory, N and S transepts, chancel with vestry to N and organ loft to S and W tower with octagonal stone spire. Externally the rubble tower and its ashlar spire, with two tiers of dormers, are clearly 14thc. Everything else looks 19thc. In fact the N arcade and the chancel are 14thc. too, but heavily restored. Construction is of coursed ashlar, much of it irregular. The only 12thc. features are sections of string course neatly reset inside the S porch.
- 7. St Peter, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church St Peter's is a small church with aisleless nave and chancel and a W tower with a pyramid roof. The nave has 12thc. N and S doorways, the S under a porch dating from 1868, when the nave was rebuilt. The chancel is 13thc. and the tower 14thc. Construction is of stone and pebble rubble. The nave has recently been converted into a church hall by screening it from the chancel and laying a tiled floor. Benches for the parishioners have been installed in the chancel, which already contained choir stalls and the organ. The nave doorways are described below, but the glory of the church is a 12thc relief of St Peter now set into the interior N chancel wall.
- 8. St Mary and All Saints, Willingham, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church A big church with a six-bay aisled nave with clerestory and S porch, aisleless chancel with N sacristy chapel and W tower with spire. The earliest fabric is dated by a blocked 13thc. lancet in the N wall, but the nave arcades, the W tower with its octagonal spire on broaches supported by flying buttresses linked to the pinnacles, and the chancel with its sacristy all date from a campaign begun in the 1330s. The sacristy is a unique feature of unknown purpose. It is essentially a separate building with three slender arches inside to carry a stone roof. The nave clerestory is Perpendicular. The exterior is of stone rubble, the ashlar is Barnack. There was a major restoration in the 1890s, and it was in the course of this that 12thc. carved stones were discovered in the chancel S wall. These are now built into the N and S walls of the S porch. The tower was restored in 1990, and in 1999 a new church hall, the Octagon, was added to the N side of the nave.
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