Church Of St Augustine

TL 65 NW BURROUGH GREEN THE GREEN (West Side)

6/29 CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE 19.8.59 Parish Church

GV II*

Parish church C14, chancel C13. Originally with transepts and chapels flanking chancel; the intersection of south transept arch with an earlier chancel window indicates the two building periods. Tower C14 with later belfry windows and parapet. Porch C15. North and south aisles reroofed with cross gables in late Cl7 and refenestrated with large cast iron lattice windows in C19. Chancel and nave roof rebuilt in C17, chancel arch removed in C19 and two C18 urns placed on responds. Transepts and chapels demolished in C17 and openings blocked. Chancel east window modern, replaces earlier five-light window. Walls of flint and pebble rubble, plastered with dressings of clunch and Barnack limestone; interior details in clunch. Roofs of plain tiles. Red brick buttresses and wall repairs. West tower of three stages has clasping buttresses of three stages. Cross gabled aisles of three bays with small two-light windows above large inserted windows. Remaining walls of transept projects from south aisle. Interior: nave arcade of three bays with octagonal piers, moulded capitals and bases, and two-centred arches of two chamfered orders. Reduced chancel arch similar to nave. Flat plastered ceilings to nave and chancel. Double piscina with foiled drains and trefoiled arches. C14 sidelia. Three C14 wall tombs with ogee crocketed canopies, central tomb originally open to north chapel. Table tombs in north aisle, C14, with two recumbent figures. Octagonal font dated 1672. C15 glass reset in east window. Pine pews with raised and fielded panels. VCH, Vol. VI, p.146. Palmer, History of Burrough Green, p43, 1939 (Monuments p56). Pevsner, Buildings of England, p.309. RCHM (Cambs notes), 1951.

Listing NGR: TL6353255443