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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WITCHFORD MAIN STREET TL 5078 (South Side)
20/31 Church of St Andrew 5.2.52 - II*
Parish church. C13 west tower, and 1376 nave and chancel. Field and rubblestone and dressed limestone dressings. Plain tiled roof with end parapet to chancel. Plan of west tower, aisleless nave and chancel. Three-stage embattled west tower has C18 gault brick repairs. No plinth and unbuttressed. Dressed limestone quoins. Restored west window of two lights in two centred arches and similar paired lights to bell stage. Nave: Three windows of three cinquefoil lights with Decorated tracery in two centred arch with label. Continuous double chamfered north and south doorways. Nave buttressing has off-set. Canted west walls with single lancet to connect with west tower. The chancel has east window of three lights with Decorated tracery. Interior: C17 staggered butt purlin nave roof. C13 two centred tower arch partly blocked. Chancel arch is two centred and of two chamfered orders, the inner on engaged shaft with moulded capital. Two niches, C14-C15, flank the chancel arch. There is a low side window in the south wall. The font is C13. Limestone. Tapering octagon on a column with splayed lower edge and moulded holdwater base.
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p.504 V.C.H. Cambs. IV
Listing NGR: TL5038178789
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