Description

TL 4478 SUTTON HIGH STREET
(North side)
17/32
Church of St Andrew
5.2.52
GV I

Parish church. Late C14 and early C15. Restored 1869 by F W Preedy. Field
and rubblestone with considerable areas of Barnack limestone ashlar and
Barnack dressings. Plain tiled roofs with end parapets and gable crosses.
Plan of west tower, nave with north and south aisles and south porch, chancel
and north vestry. West tower: Late C14 and C15. Four stages on splayed
plinth with quatrefoil band carried round the four stage angle buttressing
which becomes polygonal in the upper stages. West doorway has two centred
arch of three ogee moulded orders divided by slender embattled shafts in
square head with dagger cusping to the spandrel. The drip mould has male and
female mask stops. The west window has been restored. The second stage has a
window of two lights with drop tracery to each side. The bell stage has three
lancet openings with inset circles above. The tower is embattled. There are
four broaches forming an octagon and probably included as the base for a
proposed spire. This octagon is also embattled. The tower is completed by a
further octagon, embattled, and having crocketted pinnacles at the corners.
There is a clock in the west face of the lower octagon. Nave: has on each
side a clerestory, five windows of two trefoil lights each in two centred
arch. It is embattled and the moulded main cornice has beast gargoyles. The
south aisle has five late C14 windows of three cinquefoil lights each in two
centred arch with flowing tracery. There is a similar window to each end of
the aisle. The aisles are also embattled and have gargoyles. The south porch
is contemporary with the south aisle. It is of two storeys, including the
parish room. The newel stair turret is in the north west corner. Embattled
parapet and two-stage angle buttressing. Moulded main cornice with corner
beast gargoyles. The cornice and splayed plinth moulding are continued round
from the south aisle. The parvise room has in each wall a two light window
with cinquefoil cusping to the head. The south doorway has a two centred
outer arch with three moulded orders, the inner wave moulding carried on three
clustered columns with moulded capitals enriched with fleurons and moulded
bases. The interior is in two bays and has tierceron vaulting on shafts
continuous from the base and with boss enrichments including the arms of
Bishops Barnet, Arundel and of York at the intersections. The chancel has two
stage buttressing. The south wall with three windows of three cinquefoil
lights with decorated tracery. A south doorway in two centred hollow and ogee
moulded arch with label. The east window, restored, in two centred arch of
five cinquefoil lights divided by a transome. The lower has cinquefoil drop
cusping to the lights and the upper stage has similar cusping in ogee heads
with flowing tracery. Interior: The south doorway inner arch is two centred
and of three continuous hollow and roll moulded orders. Tower arch two
centred with polygonal shafts with embattled capitals. The tower hall carries
a tierceron vault of wood with an octagonal bell rope opening. Nave arcade of
six bays. Two centred arches of continuous hollow moulded outer order and
ogee moulded inner order on lozenge shaped piers with engaged columns to the
east and west faces. There is a continuous hood moulding with beast stops.
The roof is C19 on original carved stone corbels. The north and south aisles
and the chancel have blind arcading to the walls corresponding with that of
the nave arcade. Two centred hollow moulded arches on moulded bases. In
south east corner of south a piscina with niche above, now mutilated, with
vaulted roof and seated figure, also mutilated. Chancel arch: Two centred
arch having a continuous hollow outer moulding and an ogee inner moulding on
engaged column with moulded capital and base. Rood loft staircase to north of
chancel arch. Chancel has C19 roof now carried on original corbels carved
with demi-angels. In the east wall flanking the altar are two niches with
subcusped ogee heads and running foliate ornament. Above is a corbel table
for a statue. Font. Octagonal bowl on modern base with fleurons to the
soffit of the bowl.

Pevsner: Buildings of England p 463
VCH: Cambs Vol IV
R Fawcett: Sutton in the Isle of Ely and its Architectural Context (British
Archaeological Association: Medieval Art and Architecture at Ely
Cathdral)

Listing NGR: TL4483678977

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527704

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