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Holy Trinity, Meldreth, Cambridgeshire

Location
(52°6′8″N, 0°0′37″E)
Meldreth
TL 378 468
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Cambridgeshire
now Cambridgeshire
medieval not confirmed
now Ely
  • Ron Baxter
  • Ron Baxter
12 June 2003

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Description

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.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Windows

Interior Features

Arches

Tower/Transept arches
Comments/Opinions

The consistent use of keeled angle rolls points to the tower arch and windows and the N doorway belonging to the same campaign. This probably dates from the early years of the 13thc. (c.1210-20) but the work has been included because it uses 12thc. forms, notably the scallop and waterleaf capitals (although the latter are 19thc. replacements).

Bibliography
  1. S. Bradley and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, New Haven and London 2014, 622.
C. H. Evelyn-White, County Churches: Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. London 1911, 134-35.

Historic England Listed Building, English Heritage Legacy ID: 52289

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Cambridgeshire, Harmondsworth 1954 (2nd ed. 1970), 441.