Parish Church Of St Mary Magdalene

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DENTON AND CALDICOTE CALDICOTE Parish Church of 4/1 St Mary Magdalen

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DENTON AND CALDECOTE CALDECOTE TL 18 NW 4/1 Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene 13.12.57 11*

Parish Church. C12 largely rebuilt in C13 and C14. Restored 1874: E J Tarver. Coursed limestone rubble and ashlar with Barnack and Ketton limestone dressings. Roofs of Collyweston stone slates. South elevation: Nave; two restored C16 windows with two four-centred lights in a square head with moulded labels, C14 doorway with wave-moulded jambs and two-centred arch, C19 west gable bellcote. Chancel; two late C13 lancet windows with moulded labels and mask stops, the western window carried below the transom as a 'low-side' window - now blocked. Interior: chancel arch; C19 round arch, C12 responds with scalloped capitals and C19 abaci. C13 bracket in chancel on north wall; two C16 brackets in nave and one in porch reset. Coffin-lid C13 or C14 in window recess of chancel. Font. C15 octagonal ogee - shaped bowl against a square pier, plain attached stem and moulded base. Locker, C13 in chancel. Piscina in chancel with chamfered jambs and trefoiled heads, fleur-de-lis spandels and detached central shaft. For monuments see RCHM and VCH (in the churchyard are a number of C18 tombstones). The chancel was in ruins in 1542, the C19 bellcote replaces a small west tower. The church is redundant. R C H M Huntingdonshire, p48 V C H Huntingdonshire, p137 Pevsner: Buildings of England, p227 Taylor, A Churches out of use in Cambs., P.C.A.S. 1983

Listing NGR: TL1408388420