Description

TL 4675 HADDENHAM CHURCH ROAD
(South side)

19/11 Church of Holy
Trinity
5.2.52
GV I

Parish church. Late C13, C14 and major restoration of 1876 by R R Rowe.
Rubblestone and limestone ashlar and dressed limestone with leaded roofs and
end parapets with C19 gable crosses. Plan of west tower, nave with north and
south aisle and transepts, north and south porches and chancel with north
vestry. West tower. C14 in origin but rebuilt 1876 by R R Rowe in memory of
4th. Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, by public
subscription. Four stages with deep moulded main cornice. Stone ashlar,
incorporating some medieval work. West doorway has two centred arch and four
hollow and roll moulded orders carried on ring shafts of pink marble. West
window C14, reset with three trefoil lights in two centred arch with
reticulated tracery, surround enriched with an inner order of ballflower and
an outer order of dogtooth ornament. The second stage has in each side wall a
circular window with two orders of ballflower enrichment. The bell stage has
a pair of lancets to each side. Nave with coursed limestone clerestory and
blocked parapet, C14, with main cornice having large beast and grotesque
gargoyles (as at Over Church, Cambs qv). Clerestory has on each side six
windows each of two trefoil lights in two centred arch. South aisle with
sandstone rubble walls and limestone dressings. Five windows, three restored
and two C14 in part. Blocked limestone parapet has three grotesque gargoyles.
South porch C14 of coursed limestone with two stage angle buttressing. Gabled
roof has blocked parapet and end parapet with corner pinnacles and main
cornice with gargoyles carried round from the south aisle. Restored two
centred outer-arch of hollow and ogee moulding on three half round clustered
columns to the responds. The south chapel is extensively restored but in the
east wall has a two cinquefoil light window in two centred arch with geometric
tracery. Rood loft staircase in angle between chancel and south transept.
Chancel has two C13 lancets, restored and a C14 window with reticulated
tracery. The east window was also restored by Rowe. Restored C13 lancets in
north wall of chancel. North wall of nave has five C14 style trefoil light
windows. Interior: Two centred tower arch with hollow and roll moulded
orders. Reset chancel screen, C15, in tower arch with drop tracery to the
upper stage and open lower stage. The bays originally divided by engaged
shafts with embattled capitals and bases. Six bay nave arcade of two centred
double chamfered arches on octagonal columns and moulded bases. The responds
at the west end and the east end to the transept had been rebuilt. The east
end has similar arches to the transepts but the piers on the west are of
marble. Transepts much rebuilt, although in south transept the shafted rear
arch to the window in the east wall remains. In the north transept a niche in
the east wall has an ogee head, enriched with running foliate ornament and
flanking crocketted pinnacles. The roof is C19 crown-post type but it is
carried on original carved corbels. The south aisle also has a C19 pent roof
and the medieval corbels. There is a restored doorway in four centred arch to
the rood loft staircase which gave access to the rood through a doorway in the
south wall of the chancel, now blocked. The chancel arch C14 is two centred
of two chamfered orders on clustered engaged columns with splayed bases and
moulded capitals. The C13 lancets in the chancel have original rear arches as
does the C14 window with similar shafted rear arch as that in the south
transept. Trefoil head to low recess in north wall in chancel. The pulpit is
c.1876. Limestone with marble shafts at the angles. Font, C15. Limestone.
Octagonal bowl, lead lined on stem with four griffins. The sides of the bowl
carved with rosettes and demi-angels with blank shields of arms, and the
soffit also carved with angels. Monuments: North aisle: John Towers 1677
white marble wall monument. William March: 1700. Limestone and white marble
wall monument. Brasses: John Godfrey 1454 and his wife; William Noyon,
1405, parts of canopy.

Pevsner: Buildings of England p399
VCH: Cambs Vol IV

Listing NGR: TL4639175638

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527698

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)