Parish Church Of St Helen

FOLKSWORTH AND WASHINGLEY MORBORNE ROAD TL 19 SW (West Side) 4/92 Parish Church of 13.12.57 St Helen II* Parish church. Chancel and nave c.1150, south transept c.1300 and C16 porch. Chancel rebuilt by Robert Pupplett, rector 1702-1706; rebuilt in Neo-Norman style with north vestry in 1850, north nave wall rebuilt and bell-cote added to west gable. Walls of roughly coursed rubble limestone with dressings of Barnack stone. C20 plain tiled roofs. South elevation: Nave doorway with four-centred head and moulded label; C14 two trefoiled-ogee-light window to west with a square head, moulded label and head stops. (North doorway c.1150 with an outer round arch enclosing a diaper patterned tympanum; jambs with continuous moulded abaci forming imposts and detached shafts with scalloped capitals and moulded bases). South porch with four-centred outer archway of two continuous chamfered orders and large resited gargoyle. South transept c.1300 window of three graduated trefoiled lights in a two-centred head. Chancel, three similar single-light windows with rounded heads. Interior: Chancel arch, semi-circular of two moulded orders with chevron ornament; responds each with two detached shafts with capitals carved with scrolls or scallops, with a human face, and festoons with a face; hollow chamfered abaci continuous along wall. Piscina in south transept with chamfered jambs and two-centred head, sexfoiled drain c.1300. Font, c.1500 octagonal bowl on octagonal stem with square base. C13 coffin lid with scrolled crosses.

VCH Huntingdonshire p173 RCHM Huntingdonshire p97 Pevsner Buildings of England p247

Listing NGR: TL1464490356