Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127621
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127621
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET
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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 MARY, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Eversden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 36654 53329
Details
TL 3653 GREAT EVERSDEN HIGH STREET (South side) 12/81 Church of St Mary
22.11.67 II*
Parish church. Rebuilt after a fire in 1466. Restorations of 1864 and 1920. Fieldstone, clunch rubble and dressings of clunch and limestone. Tiled roof. Plan of west tower, nave and chancel. West Tower of three stages on plinth with three stage diagonal buttressing and newel staircase at north east angle. Rebuilt embattlement. Restored west window of three lights. Single light window with trefoil head in two centred arch to each side of second stage. Bell stage has original clunch dressings to two light openings with foiled heads and two centred arches. Nave has two late C15 windows, restored, in south wall. Chancel with resort fenestration. Each window of three cinquefoil lights in two centred arch. North porch, dated 1636 on gable. Framed, rendered, and tiled. North and South doorways have continuous ogee mouldings to four centred arches on chamfered bases. Interior: nave roof in three bays. Late medieval. Arch braced, cambered tie beams. West tower arch, two centred and of two aisles. Outer hollow and roll moulded, inner chamfered. Responds with half octagonal shafts with moulded capitals and high bases. Chancel arch is similar and has a rood loft stair opening on north side. Chancel has late medieval roof. Arch braced tie beams with the wall posts resting on stone corbels. The wall posts have engaged shafts with embattled capitals and moulded bases. The cornice is also embattled. Piscina, late cl5-early C16 in East wall of chancel. Pulpit, early C17 on modern base.
R.C.H.M.: West Cambs Mon. (1) Pevsner: Buildings of England
Listing NGR: TL3665453329
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52130
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954)
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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