Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, MILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330781
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, MILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330781
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, MILL STREET
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, MILL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Houghton and Wyton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 28127 72090
Details
HOUGHTON AND WYTON MILL STREET 1. 5140 (west side) Houghton Parish Church of St Mary TL 28 72 13/30 30.5.58 II 2. Parish Church. Largely C14 with C13 chancel rebuilt in 1851. Comprehensive restoration in 1870-1. Pebble-rubble with dressings of Barnack stone, modern brick in north aisle. Roofs of plain tiles and lead. Tower of three stages with embattled parapet and four moulded pinnacle shafts with caps. Clasping buttresses at western angles of first two stages. Trefoiled, two-light belfry windows with quatrefoils project above the parapet in a gabled head. Ashlar spire set on an octagonal base. South facing clerestory has a range of four quatrefoil lights. South porch C16, outer archway with four-centred arch and 1664 inscribed on western jamb. Chancel has two-light windows of C14 date and a single trefoiled lancet-light circa 1300. East window has C15 tracery in C14 opening. Interior: C13 two-centred chancel arch of two chamfered orders to right hand of stair turret that intrudes into nave. C13 double piscina with mask stops to labels, shafted jambs and wooden shelf. C13 stone seat originally longer with shaped arms and chamfered edges fixed to north wall of chancel. Two oak cupboards with C15 carved panels. Good C18 tomb-stones to north and east of church with table-tomb dated 1774. (RCHM Huntingdonshire p 142. Inskip Ladds Records, Norris Museum, St Ives).
Listing NGR: TL2812772090
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54105
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 142
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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