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St Andrew, Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire

Location
(52°11′31″N, 0°10′36″E)
Cherry Hinton
TL 489 571
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Cambridgeshire
now Cambridgeshire
medieval St Andrew
now St Andrew
  • Ron Baxter
  • Ron Baxter
21 August 2003

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Description

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.

History

In 1066 the manoir was held by Eadgifu the Fair, said to be the mistress of King Harold II, and in 1086 it was held by Count Alan Rufus, 1st Lord of Richmond and was rated at 7 hides. At Alan's death it passed to his brothers, the youngest, Stephen, inheriting in 1093. He died in 1035 and it passed to his son, Alan, who died in 1146 and then to his son Count Conan (d.1171). The larger part of the manor was held in demesne by the Richmonds until the early-13thc.

Features

Exterior Features

Windows

Furnishings

Fonts

Tombs/Graveslabs

Comments/Opinions

RCHME dates the tombstone c.1200, but finds the upper part 'more crudely cut than the foliation', and suggests later re-use of the slab. Bradley dates the coffin lid with foliate decoration to the late-12thc. and suggests that the head with praying hands is a later addition of c.1300.

Bibliography
  1. S. Bradley and N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, New Haven and London 2014, 350-51.

Historic England Listed Building, English Heritage Legacy ID: 47463.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Cambridgeshire, Harmondsworth 1954 (2nd ed. 1970), 316-17.

RCHME, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, London, 1959, 254-98 (59).

Victoria County History: Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely X (2002), 106-09, 113-16.