Church of St Giles
CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1125926
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1125926
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tydd St. Giles
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 42707 16472
Details
TF 41 NW TYDD ST. GILES CHURCH LANE 3/71 (East Side)
23.6.52 Church of St. Giles
GV II*
Parish church. Late C12 nave with C14 north and south aisles. The chancel was destroyed by Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. The church is noteworthy for its nave arcade and west front. Barnack stone with rubblestone and some brick. C14 west doorway. Ogee arch with running foliate ornament and foliated terminal. Above are three C14 niches with trefoil heads and ogee arches divided by small piers, set diagonally, with pointed finials. Two buttresses, each of three stages, and each with a similar niche to the second stage. West window of five trefoil lights with foiled and intersecting tracery in head. Two centred arch. Nave has original late C12 clerestory, now blocked, of four windows. Two centred arches of one chamfered order. Above is the C15 or C16 clerestory of six windows, each of two cinquefoil lights in a square head. Beast gargoyles to C15 or C16 cornice above clerestory. Roof raised C19. South aisle. Three C14 windows of three trefoil lights with decorated tracery in four- centred arches, and two late C14 or C15 windows, also of three trefoil lights but with vertical tracery. South doorway. Two-centred arch with roll and hollow mouldings. North aisle, mainly C14. Five windows of three trefoil lights with decorated tracery in four-centred arches. North porch. Late C13 or early C14. Two-centred outer arch of one moulded and one chamfered order, with half-octagonal responds with moulded capitals and bases. Interior. North and south arcades, late C12 and of six bays. Round-headed arches of two chamfered orders on round columns with scalloped or foliate capitals on hold-water bases. Chancel arch C14, two-centred and of hollow and roll moulding, the responds have half-round attached columns with foliate capitals and moulded bases and are flanked by two similar smaller attached shafts or columns. Piscina, C14, in south wall of south chapel. Trefoil head in ogee arch. Font, C15, hexagonal bowl and stem on double stepped base. Bowl carved with heraldic devices. Inscription. One of the columns in the nave arcade is carved with a C14 inscription. VCH (Cambs), Vol.IV, p.229. Pevsner (Buildings of England), p.475.
Listing NGR: TF4270716472
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48146
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 229
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 475
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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