Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. A Medieval Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- sharp-tracery-hawthorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, Main Street, Witchford
- OS grid reference
- TL 503 787
- Coordinates
- 52.3865, 0.20828
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a parish church located on Witchford Main Street. It features a 13th-century west tower and a nave and chancel dating from 1376. The church is constructed from field and rubblestone with dressed limestone dressings, topped with a plain tiled roof that has an end parapet at the chancel. The layout includes a west tower, an aisleless nave, and a chancel. The three-stage embattled west tower has 18th-century gault brick repairs, lacks a plinth, and is unbuttressed, with dressed limestone quoins. The restored west window consists of two lights in two-centred arches, with similar paired lights in the bell stage.
The nave features three windows, each with three cinquefoil lights and Decorated tracery in two-centred arches with labels. There are continuous double-chamfered doorways on the north and south sides. The nave's buttressing is offset, and the canted west walls connect to the west tower with a single lancet. The chancel includes an east window with three lights and Decorated tracery.
Inside, the nave has a 17th-century staggered butt purlin roof. The 13th-century two-centred tower arch is partly blocked, while the chancel arch is two-centred and consists of two chamfered orders, with the inner order resting on engaged shafts with moulded capitals. Flanking the chancel arch are two niches from the 14th to 15th centuries, and there is a low side window in the south wall. The font, dating from the 13th century, is made of limestone and features a tapering octagon on a column with a splayed lower edge and a moulded holdwater base.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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