Parish Church Of St Mary

HOUGHTON AND WYTON MILL STREET 1. 5140 (west side) Houghton Parish Church of St Mary TL 28 72 13/30 30.5.58 II 2. Parish Church. Largely C14 with C13 chancel rebuilt in 1851. Comprehensive restoration in 1870-1. Pebble-rubble with dressings of Barnack stone, modern brick in north aisle. Roofs of plain tiles and lead. Tower of three stages with embattled parapet and four moulded pinnacle shafts with caps. Clasping buttresses at western angles of first two stages. Trefoiled, two-light belfry windows with quatrefoils project above the parapet in a gabled head. Ashlar spire set on an octagonal base. South facing clerestory has a range of four quatrefoil lights. South porch C16, outer archway with four-centred arch and 1664 inscribed on western jamb. Chancel has two-light windows of C14 date and a single trefoiled lancet-light circa 1300. East window has C15 tracery in C14 opening. Interior: C13 two-centred chancel arch of two chamfered orders to right hand of stair turret that intrudes into nave. C13 double piscina with mask stops to labels, shafted jambs and wooden shelf. C13 stone seat originally longer with shaped arms and chamfered edges fixed to north wall of chancel. Two oak cupboards with C15 carved panels. Good C18 tomb-stones to north and east of church with table-tomb dated 1774. (RCHM Huntingdonshire p 142. Inskip Ladds Records, Norris Museum, St Ives).

Listing NGR: TL2812772090