The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Cambridgeshire (pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales))
Parish church
Bottisham is a village on the N side of the A14, Cambridge to Newmarket road, midway between the two. The church stands alongside the village High Street, and is a very tall and imposing building, largely built of clunch and limestone with some flint in the W porch. It consists of a chancel; an aisled nave with clerestories and N and S porches, the N now used as a vestry; a W tower and a tall W porch with a giant-order arch facing the High Street. The chancel and the lower parts of the tower and the W porch are 13thc, and the remainder belong to an extensive early-14thc rebuilding. The nave has a wooden W gallery. The main restoration was by Charles Papworth in 1839-40; the W tower and porch were restored in 1849-50; the chancel refurbished in 1867 and its E wall rebuilt in 1875, and the S porch was repaired in 1870.
The E ends of both nave aisles have been screened off to form chapels, and in the N chapel, below the touching memorial to two infants of the Alington family, are a number of carved stones and tomb fragments, including the three Romanesque pieces described here: a tympanum, fragments of a font bowl, and a chevron voussoir. There is no Romanesque fabric in the church as far as can be seen.
Parish church
A cruciform church with an aisled nave and a W tower with chapels to N
and S (i.e. a species of W transept). Most of this, that is to say the lower
stage of the tower with the W doorway and the N, S and E arches inside, the N
nave arcade, the clerestorey
with circular windows with plate-tracery quatrefoils,
the S nave doorway and the N transept must date from the early 13thc. The S
nave arcade, however, is older in conception and is
described below. The S transept is in fact a later chapel, and looks 14thc.,
the same date as the upper storeys of the tower. The aisleless chancel is presumably c.1200 but its windows are later and the
chancel arch is 19thc. Construction is all of pebble
rubble with ashlar dressings, and the tower has a crumpled spire.
Parish church
St Mary's has a seven-bay aisled nave with arcades of c.1200, a 13thc. S chapel, and a 15thc. clerestorey. The chancel is 13thc. and the tower 14thc. with an octagonal ashlar spire. Construction is of roughly coursed stone. The nave has N and S doorways, the S giving access to a hexagonal meeting room, built in 1985 and extended in 1999, while the N, under a 14thc. porch, is an elaborate composition contemporary with the nave arcades.
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The church is largely of the 14thc., and has an aisled nave of four
bays with quatrefoil
clerestory windows over the piers. The S aisle is
original, the N was rebuilt in 1891-92 by W. M. Fawcett, who had restored the
church in 1876–77. The chancel is aisleless, its
E window (and probably the entire E wall) being 19thc. There is a W tower which
is mortar-rendered, but otherwise construction is of mixed pebble and stone
rubble with ashlar buttresses, except for the chancel E
wall which is of ashlar with brick repairs. Johnson reported a loose 12thc.
stone in the church, but this was not found.
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.
Parish church
Originally an aisleless church with nave, chancel and central tower, all of c.1300. In the early 14thc. a N aisle and transepts were added. The main entrance is on the N, facing the road, and a Perpendicular porch was added on this side. A vestry to the S of the chancel was added in the 19thc. Construction is of flint and pebble, and the tower has a Hertfordshire spike. The church was restored in 1869-70 and 1956-61. A reset impost and a loose capital (reported but not found) provide evidence earlier than any of the standing fabric.
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Wide, 13thc. aisled nave of five bays with
Perpendicular clerestorey, N and S transepts, N and
S porches, the former two-storied, aisleless chancel
with N vestry, and W tower with a lead spike. The
overall effect from outside is of a Perpendicular, battlemented church
constructed in russet brown carstone and pebble rubble. The only feature
included here is the font of c1200.
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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.
Parish church
The church consists of an aisled nave and aisleless chancel of flint with reused ashlar (including 12thc. moulded
stones but no sculpture) and tile and brick repairs. There is a W tower of
ashlar with a Hertfordshire spike. The nave has doorways to N and S, the S
being larger and protected by a flint porch. An ashlar
vestry has been added to the N of the chancel. At the junction of nave and chancel on the S is an octagonal stair turret. Inside it becomes clear that the nave has been
lengthened. The three E bays of the S arcade date from c.1300, while the three W bays and the entire N arcade are
later. The only Romanesque feature is the font.
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.