Parish Church of St Mary and the Holy Host of Heaven is a Grade I listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1959. A C14 Church.
Parish Church of St Mary and the Holy Host of Heaven
- WRENN ID
- western-window-auburn
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1959
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The parish church of St Mary and the Holy Host of Heaven dates primarily to the early 14th century, with additions to the tower and belfry stair turret in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and a south porch constructed in the 15th century. It is built of flint with limestone and clunch dressings, with interior details in the same materials. The roof is tiled, with gable parapets.
The church has a cruciform plan and features clasping buttresses to the transepts and angle buttresses to the west gable end and chancel. The chancel has two-light traceried windows in two-centred arches, and a sealed lancet window in the north wall. The south transept has a single three-light window, and a polygonal stair turret rises above the plain parapet of an octagonal belfry set above a square tower. A two-light belfry window has a quatrefoil design. Two nave windows, each with three trefoiled lights in two-centred arches, are also present. The south porch has a niche above a two-centred arched opening, with attached shafts and moulded capitals and bases, and a label with head stops.
Inside, the crossing is notable for its fine early 14th-century design, featuring three attached columns to each jamb with deeply moulded capitals and bases, and steep, chamfered two-centred arches. A wooden quadrapartite vault with tracery covers the crossing. The roofs of the nave, transepts, and chancel are from the 15th century, and may be partly restored, with embattled decoration, pierced spandrels to the tie beams, and carved angels in each bay of the chancel. The nave roof is arch braced. Late 14th-century carved brackets on the crossing piers were originally for statues or candles. The south transept contains two tomb recesses. The chancel features a piscina and a wide sedelia, or Easter sepulchre. A piscina is also in the north transept, and a lancet window is in the east wall.
A 15th-century octagonal font has painted panels. A late 14th or early 15th-century screen, restored, has single traceried lights and a centrally placed ogee-headed doorway. Monuments include one to Symon Folkes, who died in 1642, depicting a kneeling figure with columns and an open pediment, and another to Martin Folkes, who died in 1828, designed by Parkinson of Newmarket. Stained glass by Kempe is located in the chancel.
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