Parish Church of St Botolph is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. A Medieval Church.
Parish Church of St Botolph
- WRENN ID
- heavy-stair-grain
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Parish Church of St Botolph, Church Lane, Graveley
- OS grid reference
- TL 249 640
- Coordinates
- 52.26071, -0.17022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St. Botolph is a Grade II* listed building located on Church Lane in Graveley. The church features a nave and a north aisle that date back to the 13th century, while the west tower was added in the 15th century. The north aisle was demolished in the 16th century, and three 13th-century windows were reset in the blocked nave arcade. A north door from the 16th century is also present. The chancel was rebuilt by Reverend Trotter in 1733, with the roof raised and a Gothic east window inserted around 1870. Restoration work on the chancel arch, south nave wall, windows, and buttresses took place between 1870 and 1880, during which the north and south doors were blocked, and the south porch was demolished.
The church's walls are made of reused limestone with clunch dressings, and there are 18th-century red brick elements. The tower has three stages, supported by four-stage angle buttresses, a moulded plinth, and a 19th-century embattled parapet. The belfry window features two cinquefoil lights set in a two-centred arch. The south nave wall includes two restored two-light windows that resemble the original 13th-century windows, complete with quatrefoils and two-centred arches. There is a two-centred arched south doorway with two continuous chamfered orders, which is currently blocked.
Inside, the church has octagonal shafted piers from the 13th-century four-bay nave arcade that are just visible. The tower arch consists of two chamfered orders with semi-circular shafts and moulded caps, and there is a 17th-century gallery. Notable monuments include a marble tablet dedicated to Reverend H. Trotter, which features a cornice and urn inscribed with details of his benefactions, created by J. Dixon. The hexagonal pulpit is from the 18th century. The library of Reverend Trotter is now housed at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Local climate
Parish Church of St Botolph sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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