Description

TL 66 NW SNAILWELL CHURCH LANE

5/160 Parish Church
19.8.59 of St Peter

GV II*

Parish Church. Nave wall possibly C11 with traces of original
roof line in west wall. Early C13 chancel and south aisle, late
C13 arcades to nave and north aisle. Late C15 clerestorey and
hammer-beam roof. South aisle wall, south porch, north vestry
and chancel and chancel arch rebuilt during 1878 restoration and
east window inserted. Flint with Barnack limestone dressings
and C19 Ketton limestone. Slate roofs. Flint tower of three
stages with plain coped parapet and weathervane mounted on
roof. Small loop windows, three, paired-light belfry windows
with round heads and shafted mullions with cushion capitals.
Nave and aisle walls with coped parapets. Clerestorey with
three two-light, cinquefoiled windows in four-centred arches.
Buttressed aisle wall with two restored lancet windows; South
porch with corner buttresses and rebuilt C13 outer arch has C15
glass re-set in side windows. Chancel has one C19 two-light
transomed window, and one lancet window. Interior. Nave of
three bays with arcade of octagonal piers with moulded capitals
and bases with wide two-centred arches of two chamfered orders
inserted into the C11 nave wall, replacing earlier arcades. A
roundel with carved cross in spandrel above south arcade. Six
bayed hammer-beam nave roof with richly carved and moulded
cornice, moulded principals and purlins and carved figures of
bishops and priests to soffits of hammer beams. Tower doorway
C15. Chancel arch and screen C19. Recesses to alter C19,
flanked by two niches each with cinquefoiled arched heads. C19
double piscena with foiled drains and trefoil in two-centred
arch. Easter sepulchre in north wall C14 with quatrefoil
panelled table tomb and ogee crocketed canopy. C15 restored
parclose screen to memorial chapel in north aisle. Chancel
screen C13, font octagonal bowl standing on single octagonal
shaft with moulded cap and base. C19 stained glass in all
windows. Monuments include one indented marble slab with cross
and figure; three black marble tablets to George Warner, 1735;
Joseph Sparrow, 1721; and Thomas Luck 1752. Wall memorial in
south aisle to Isaac Thornton 1669, black marble plaque with
flanking pilasters and broken pediment, and black marble floor
tablet at foot. One of two in Cambridgeshire with a round
Norman tower.

Pevsner. Buildings in England, p.456
Cole Manuscripts. (microfilm), C.R.O.

Listing NGR: TL6421467573

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543644

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