St Peter, Little Gransden, Cambridgeshire

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Location
(52°10′49″N, 0°8′33″W)
Site Location
Little Gransden
National Grid Reference
TL 271 552
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Cambridgeshire now Cambridgeshire
Diocese
medieval not confirmed now Ely
Dedication
medieval not confirmed now St Paul and St Peter
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Ron Baxter
Photographers
  • Ron Baxter
Visit Date
07 July 2003

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Feature Sets
Description

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.

History

In 1086 the manor pertained to the Abbey of Ely.

Features

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Exterior Decoration

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Bibliography
G. R. Bossier, Notes on the Cambridgeshire Churches. 1827, 36.
The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, V, 1973, 97-98.
C. H. Evelyn-White, County Churches: Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. London 1911, 82-84.
The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Cambridgeshire (Architectural Institute of Great Britain and Ireland), Oxford 1852, 34.
F. S. L. Johnson, A Catalogue of Romanesque Sculpture in Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. M.Phil (London, Courtauld Institute), 1984, 276.
D. and S. Lysons, Magna Britannia. Cambridgeshire II, pt I, London 1808, 202-03.
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Cambridgeshire, Harmondsworth 1954 (2nd ed. 1970), 428.
RCHME, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridge. Volume 1. West Cambridgeshire. London 1968, 167-69.