Church of St Augustine is a Grade II* listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1959. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Augustine
- WRENN ID
- plain-tower-evening
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1959
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Augustine, the Green, Burrough Green
- OS grid reference
- TL 635 554
- Coordinates
- 52.17303, 0.39004
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Augustine is a parish church that dates back to the 14th century, with the chancel originating in the 13th century. It was originally designed with transepts and chapels on either side of the chancel, and the intersection of the south transept arch with an earlier chancel window indicates these two building phases. The tower, constructed in the 14th century, features later belfry windows and a parapet. The porch was added in the 15th century.
The north and south aisles were reroofed with cross gables in the late 17th century and were refenestrated with large cast iron lattice windows in the 19th century. The roofs of the chancel and nave were rebuilt in the 17th century, and the chancel arch was removed in the 19th century, with two 18th-century urns placed on the responds. The transepts and chapels were demolished in the 17th century, and their openings were blocked. The chancel's east window is modern and replaces an earlier five-light window. The church's walls are made of flint and pebble rubble, plastered with dressings of clunch and Barnack limestone, with interior details in clunch. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, and there are red brick buttresses and wall repairs.
The west tower has three stages and features clasping buttresses. The cross-gabled aisles consist of three bays with small two-light windows above the large inserted windows. The remaining walls of the transept project from the south aisle. Inside, the nave arcade comprises three bays with octagonal piers, moulded capitals and bases, and two-centred arches of two chamfered orders. The reduced chancel arch is similar to that of the nave. Both the nave and chancel have flat plastered ceilings. There is a double piscina with foiled drains and trefoiled arches, and a 14th-century sidelia. The church contains three 14th-century wall tombs with ogee crocketed canopies, with the central tomb originally open to the north chapel. There are also 14th-century table tombs in the north aisle featuring two recumbent figures, and an octagonal font dated 1672. The 15th-century glass has been reset in the east window, and the pews are made of pine with raised and fielded panels.
Local climate
Church of St Augustine sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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