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St Andrew, Stapleford, Cambridgeshire

Location
(52°8′51″N, 0°8′54″E)
Stapleford
TL 471 521
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Cambridgeshire
now Cambridgeshire
medieval not confirmed
now Ely
  • Ron Baxter

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Description

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.

History

In 1086 the manor was held by the Abbot of Ely and assessed at 10 hides.

Features

Interior Features

Arches

Furnishings

Tombs/Graveslabs

Comments/Opinions

Bibliography
Cambridge Antiquarian Society Proceedings and Communications, LXXI, 35.
Ecclesiologist, XXVII, 1866,
The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, VIII, 1982, 235-36.
F. S. L. Johnson, A Catalogue of Romanesque Sculpture in Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. M.Phil (London, Courtauld Institute), 1984, 287-89.
D. and S. Lysons, Magna Britannia. Cambridgeshire II, pt I, London 1808, 256-57
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Cambridgeshire, Harmondsworth 1954 (2nd ed. 1970,