Description

GLATTON CHURCH ROAD
TL 1486
(South-East Side)
13/11 Parish church of St
Nicholas
13.12.57
GV I

Parish Church. Nave arcades c1230-40, late C13 north transept. Early C14
chancel and south aisles/in late C15 the chancel partly rebuilt and lengthened,
the nave arcade and clerestory and the upper walls of the south transept
heightened. West tower: arches late C14; late C15 or early C16 upper
stages. Early C16 north aisle extended westwards, south aisle lengthened and
widened. Early C16 vaulted north vestry, rood loft and staircase. Roof of
north transept renewed 1701. Restoration, 1869. Walls of limestone rubble
with reused Ketton and Barnack stone; Ketton ashlar to chancel walls;
dressings of Barnack and Ketton stone. Lead covered roofs. South elevation:
west tower of three stages with ground stage enclosed by north and south
aisles and clerestory continuing westwards on the north and south walls up to
the second stage; moulded plinth and embattled parapet with a gargoyle to
each centre and band of quatrefoils below, large heraldic beasts to each
corner, clasping buttresses rise to third stage; second stage with clock
face, third stage belfry window of four transomed lights in a four-centred
arch with traceried spandrels and moulded square headed label with beast
stops. Embattled clerestory with three windows (and a similar fourth window
in first stage of tower) with three cinquefoil lights and vertical tracery in
four-centred heads. South aisle with moulded plinth and embattled parapet
with strings below of C14 grotesque faces and ball-flower ornament; three
reset C14 windows of two pointed lights with a pierced spandrel and moulded
label; south doorway C15 with moulded jambs, four-centred head and moulded
label. chancel, late C15 cinquefoil-light window with trefoil spandrels in a
four-centred head with moulded label, still stepped to earlier low-side C14
window with two pointed lights pierced spandrel and two-centre head with
moulded label and carved stops. Interior: north and south arcades almost
similar, of three bays c1230-40 heightened and rebuilt with semi-circular
arches of two chamfered orders, piers and responds with C15 moulded octagonal
capitals and C13 moulded bases. In the north-east angle of the nave is the
C16 rood-loft doorway. Tower arches; two-centred of two orders with moulded
label to the nave, the chamfered inner order springs from semi circular
attached shafts with moulded semi octagonal capitals and bases, the north and
south arcades have two additional chamfered orders. Chancel arch; late C15
of two moulded orders, the outer springing from chamfered responds and the
inner from attached semi octagonal shafts with moulded capitals. The north
C16 doorway has moulded jambs and a four-centred head with oak studded door
and with integral vertical ribs and strap hinges. North vestry; vault of two
bays with quadripartite vaulting, the moulded ribs springing from semi
octagonal moulded corbels, one original east window of two trefoiled light,
and doorways with chamfered jambs and two-centred head blocked square headed
north window. Former chamber over the Vestry with entry from the rood stair.
Roofs; to chancel incorporating some c1500 timbers, nave roof of three bays
inscribed 'ANNO 1615' with moulded tiebeams, moulded purlins, wall plates and
short king posts, each tie beam carved with a heart and wheel on each face;
north transept roof c1700 with cambered chamfered tie beams, chamfered ridge
and purlins; north and south aisle pent roofs c1700, south aisle roof
inscribed 'R.N.' and 'IH 1701 S.C. W.K. W.M.'. Six brackets, some of carved
earlier material. Font, octagonal bowl replacement to late C15 octagonal stem
base and step. Early C14 mullioned locker, niches and recesses in north
transept and north vestry. Piscina, early C14 with chamfered jambs and
trefoiled head. C15 sedillia. Screen to chancel of five bays with wide
two-ogee trefoiled arches; seating in nave, sixteen benches with carved poppy
heads, C15. Paintings, late C15 or early C16 of St Mary Magdalene and Christ
rising from the tomb. Small fireplace to vestry. The transept was used as a
school room in the early C19 with a doorway cut through the north wall. For
monuments and floor slabs see RCHM and VCH.

V C H Huntingdonshire, p179
R C H M Huntingdonshire, p102
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p247

Inskip Ladds Records. Norris Museum, St Ives.
Cottrell, D J (1978) Monumental Inscriptions 1722-1975. H.R.O.
Manor of Glatton, estate map, by John Hausted. 1613. H.R.O.
Glatton, Holme and Denton, estate map for Wm. Wells. 1770. H.R.O.
Church Warden Account Books, 1799-1927. H.R.O.

Listing NGR: TL1536286108

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527897

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