CHURCH OF ST GILES
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317879
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, POTTON ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, POTTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tadlow
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 27997 47613
Details
TADLOW POTTON ROAD
TL 24NE (North side)
7/76
Church of St Giles
22.11.67
II*
Parish church. C13 nave and chancel, and circa 1400 west tower. Restored
c,1860 under supervision of W Butterfield. Fieldstone, clunch rubble with
limestone and clunch dressings. Plain tiled roofs. West tower, nave, chancel
and north vestry and south porch. West tower of three stages. West doorway in
pointed arch with continuous moulding and square head having dagger tracery to
the spandrels. West window of two cinquefoil lights in four centred arch with
label. Bell stage has two similar openings in four centred arch. Aisleless
nave with south wall refenestrated, c14-C15, three windows of two cinquefoil
lights with vertical tracery in depressed arch. South doorway C13. Two
centred arch of three moulded orders the outer two carried on nook shafts with
restored capital and base. Chancel has two lancets, restored C19, in north and
south walls and rebuilt east wall with three C19 graduated lancets. There are
two C13 lancets in north wall of nave. Interior: West tower added on a
corrected orientation. Two centred tower arch of two chamfered orders, the
inner on engaged shaft with moulded capital and base. Deep splays to rear
arches of C13 lancets in north wall. Roof rebuilt C19. Chancel has been
remodelled internally in c.1860 and has polychrome tiles and painted boarded
ceiling. Font by Butterfield. Grey marble octagonal bowl with panelled sides
having raised gables in relief and intaglio quatrefoil of white marble. Broach
stopped octagonal stem.
RCHM: West Cambs mon (1)
Pevsner: Buildings of England p469
Listing NGR: TL2799747613
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52794
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 469
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.
End of official listing
