Description

TL 45SW HARSTON CHURCH STREET
(South West Side)

4/128 Church of All Saints
31.8.62
GV II*

Parish church mostly mid-late C14 but there is some evidence of
an earlier church on the site. The church was restored c.1853.
Flint clunch rubble, pebblestone, dressed clunch and limestone,
Slate and plain tiled roof. Plan of West Tower, nave, North and
South aisles. North porch and chancel. West Tower of three
stages on splayed plinth with embattled parapet with clasping
buttresses. Restored C15 two-light west window with vertical
tracery. Bell stage has single cinquefoil opening in two
centred arch to each side. The nave has a restored C15
clerestory of five, two-light windows to each side. The nave
has an embattled parapet. The South aisle is much narrower than
the North and is probably rebuilt on the site of part of an
early medieval church. The South doorway is C15 and of clunch
and has a hollow moulded two centred arch in a square head with
foliated spandrels. The three windows were restored in C15
style but the dripmoulds and their masks are original. The
chancel was entirely rebuilt in 1853. There is a C15 embattled
North porch with original roof and hollow mouldings to an outer
two-centred archway. Interior: The wall material is of dressed
clunch and the mouldings of the tower arch North and South nave
arcade and chancel arch are similar. Nave arcades in five
bays. Two centred arches of the wave moulded orders, the outer
continuous and two inner on attached columns with moulded
two-stage bell shaped base and octagonal capitals. The crown
post roof with arch bracing to the tie-beams is C15. It is
carried on large corbels, carved with figures. North of the
chancel arch is the C15 rood loft staircase. Octagonal with a
pyramidal roof. There are C14 piscinas in the North and South
aisles. The pulpit is late C15, repaired. Octagonal with door
in one side. Each side with ogee arched panels and small
buttress pilasters to the corners.
R.C.H.M: Record card
Pevsner: Buildings of England p.402
V.C.H. (Cambs) Vol VIII p. 178

Listing NGR: TL4180650967

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550862

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