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All Saints, Winwick, Huntingdonshire

Location
(52°24′47″N, 0°22′36″W)
Winwick
TL 105 807
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Huntingdonshire
now Cambridgeshire
  • Ron Baxter

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Feature Sets
Description

All Saints has an aisled four-bay nave with clerestoreys, a S transept, an aisleless chancel and a W tower supporting a broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes. The S arcade is 13thc. and the N c. 1325. The chancel also dates from the 13thc., but the chancel arch was rebuilt c.1350. The S transept and the tower date from the 15thc. In the 16thc. the clerestorey was added to the nave and the N aisle was rebuilt. There was a major restoration by Slater and Carpenter in 1864, when the south transept, the south aisle clerestorey, the porch and the upper part of the spire were rebuilt. The spire was struck by lightning in 1935 and subsequently restored. Construction is of coursed stone rubble. The S doorway is the only 12thc. feature.

History

No church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but in 1086 the manor was held by Eustace the Sheriff. He held 5 hides which Oilard held from him; half a hide from the Abbot of Peterborough; and a further half hide was held from him by Widelard. The last two holdings were entered under Northamptonshire, and it was not until 1888 that the part of the parish formerly included in Polebrook Hundred (Northamptonshire) was wholly transferred to Huntingdonshire.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Comments/Opinions

The present state of the doorway belongs to the later 12thc., perhaps as late as 1200, but there is some evidence that the voussoirs around the top of the arch have been recut and reset, and it may be that the outer order belonged to an earlier round-headed doorway. This would certainly suit the saltire decoration, which suggests a date in the 1st half of the century.

Bibliography
Victoria County History: Huntingdonshire. III (1936).
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth 1968, 366.
RCHM(E), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire. London 1926, 290-92.