Description

TL 36NW CONINGTON SCHOOL LANE
(South Side)

5/13 Parish Church
31.8.62 of St. Mary

II*

Parish church. Fragments of re-used C12 stone. Tower, C14,
nave rebuilt and tower buttressed c.1737 by Dingley Askham,
inscription on wall monument 'in the Year 1737 he rebuilt this
Church'. Family vault c.1740 south of nave and at half-basement
level. Chancel rebuilt 1871, by W.M. Fawcett. Restorations
1902 and 1911 when the broach spire was rebuilt. Walls of
pebble and limestone rubble, partly stuccoed; limestone and
clunch dressings; ashlar spire, C18 red, and white brick. Lead
and plain tile roofs. North elevation. Chancel with angle
buttresses and parapet gable, two, Y-tracery windows flank
central two-centred arched priest's door. Nave of C18 red brick
with rusticated window jambs originally stuccoed with limestone
imposts and key blocks. Large splayed red brick buttresses to
tower; tower walls stuccoed to belfry height with restored
two-trefoiled-light belfry window with quatrefoil, plain
parapet; octagonal spire with roll-moulded angles and gabled
spire-lights on cardinal faces. Five rainwater heads c.1737.
Interior. Nave windows flanked internally by elliptical-headed
recesses with keystones each with monuments to the Askham and
Cotton families, (see R.C.H.M.), of note, one to Dame Alice
Cotton, 1657 by Joshua Marshall (1629-1678); to Robert Cotton
1697 with signature 'G. Gibbons fecit', incised on a palm leaf
at the base of the medallion, the only known monument to be
signed by Grinling Gibbons; to Francis and Mary Askham 1748 and
to Dingley Askham, 1781. For other monuments and floor slabs
see R.C.H.M. Gallery with front of turned balusters, c.1737.
Boarded C19 barrel roofs. Reset piscena C14 in chancel. Bell
thought to be by William Brazier of Norwich c.1376 one of the
earliest in the country. Reset C14 glass.
Cole MSS CRO
R.C.H.M. West Cambs Mon.1, p.55
Pevsner. Buildings of England p.324
Raven J.J. Church Bells of Cambs p.12-13
Gunnis, R. Dictionary of British Sculptors pp. 167,254

Listing NGR: TL3201166059

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550627

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