The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Cambridgeshire (pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales))
Parish church
An aisleless cruciform church with a 12thc. window on the N side of the
nave, but otherwise substantially of the 13thc. with pointed lancets. The
crossing tower has been removed and a Perpendicular W
tower built instead, as happened at Soham. The S transept once had an E chapel
(blocked arch visible). Construction is of flint and pebble. 12thc. sculpture
is found on the font.
Parish church
Hauxton has kept its 12thc. aisleless nave and chancel, and the chancel arch between
them. The nave terminates at the E end with angle-rolled buttresses. The
chancel had an apse originally but is now square-ended.
Transepts were added to the nave, but have been removed. The W tower, with its
tower arch, is plain Perpendicular. A storeroom has been added to the nave,
approached from within through the completely plain N doorway. Construction is
of flint and pebble rubble with render on the chancel.
12thc. carved features are the S doorway, one nave window, the chancel arch and possibly the font.
Parish church
Five-bay nave with 14–15thc. S aisle and S porch, aisleless 12thc. chancel with plain, round-headed windows (two on the N and one on the S) and W tower of c.1210–20. The tower and chancel are of rubble masonry with ashlar facings. The nave is of flint with the aisle and porch mortar rendered. There was a restoration in 1887 (datestone), which included the installation of a neo-Norman triplet in the chancel E wall, then in 1960 the top storey of the tower was comprehensively restored. In 1993 a church hall was added to the N, accessible from the church via the original N nave doorway. Features included are the N doorway, the tower arch and the tower windows.
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.
Parish church
St Andrew's has a fine ashlar-faced chancel of
c.1230–40, a five-bay aisled nave with later
13thc. arcades and a W tower with two plain 12thc.
windows in its W wall. The plain jambs of the tower arch are 13thc., but the
arch itself is four-centred. The nave has no clerestorey now, the one built in the 15thc. having collapsed
in 1792. The chancel walls show evidence of
Micklethwaite's 1886 restoration. They are of ashlar at the top, and brick (N),
pebble rubble (S), or incongruously pebble-dashed (E) below. Micklethwaite
would surely accept no blame for the last. The nave is of pebble rubble,
restored by Scott in 1870–75, and the tower of ashlar. The nave has N
and S doorways, the S under a porch, the N giving
access to a modern church hall on this side. Inside the church are a 12thc.
grave slab and a plain font.
Parish church
An extremely satisfying late medieval church set on a large open green
to the S of the town. It consists of an aisled nave, the N arcade early 14thc., the S slightly later; a chancel by W. Smith (1843); and a 14thc. W tower with an
octagonal stone spire. The 14thc. work is dated by a Papal indulgence of 1343,
but the church was considerably modified in the early 16thc. This work includes
the clerestorey, rebuilding of the aisles, and S
porch bearing the date 1528. The most celebrated
aspect of the Perpendicular remodelling is, of course, the double hammerbeam
roof with three tiers of angels. Construction is of mixed stone rubble but the
16thc. parts include flint and flushwork. The re-cut 12thc. font must,
therefore, come from an earlier building.
Parish church
Nave with N and S aisles and a N transept at the E end; aisleless
chancel and W tower. A large flint vestry has been added to the N of the nave. The nave,
transept and tower are of flint and pebble, while the chancel has been newly rebuilt in concrete blocks on the
original flint plinth course. There is a 12thc.
chancel arch, and a small gravestone loose inside the
church.
Parish church
The church has a W tower, and a nave with 14thc. N and S aisles of three
bays now, but originally longer - the aisles have been
removed and the arcade blocked at the W. There are N
and S transepts and an aisleless chancel the same
width as the nave's central vessel. Construction is of flint with a brick
chancel and buttresses of brick with ashlar facings.
The church has seen extensive rebuilding in brick. The tower has three storeys
of which the first and most of the second are flint, while the top part of the
second and all of the third has the flint loosely chequered with ashlar blocks.
The font is the only 12thc. feature.
Parish church
Aisled nave with N and S porches, chancel and
W tower. The nave (except for its aisles) and the chancel are 12thc. The shafted SE angle of the 12thc. nave is
still visible outside, while the chancel has 12thc.
windows to N and S. The S aisle dates from the 14thc. and was extended W
c.1400 at the same time as the tower was built. The N aisle and the porches are
late 15thc. The tower is of three storeys with an octagonal stone spire.
Construction is of pebble rubble except for the chancel, which is of ashlar. The upper storey of the tower is
rendered. The chancel was restored in 1878 by Charles
Hodgson Fowler. The S wall was completely rebuilt using ashlar from the E wall,
and the Norman window reset. The E wall and an organ recess in the N wall were
built entirely new, and the floor was raised. 12thc. features are the font and
the chancel windows
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.