Church Of St Nicholas

TL 66 NW FORDHAM LANDWADE

5/126 Church of St 19.8.59 Nicholas

II*

Church of St Nicholas. Built c.1445 for Sir Walter Cotton. Cruciform plan and west tower. Some re-used Barnack stone and limestone dressings, flint and pebble rubble originally plastered. Interior details in clunch. Welsh slate roofs; plain tile pyramidal tower roof and pent roof to tower turret. Two massive gault brick buttresses, mid C19, to west elevation of tower. Building otherwise without buttresses excepting the porch and west end with angle buttresses. Continuous moulded plinth band. Coped parapet gables to roofs. Tower of two stages with embattled parapet and round arched belfry windows rebuilt in west elevation. Windows with three cinquefoil lights and quartrefoils with labels in east window and north transept east window, other windows of two-lights. Two C15 doors; doorway in north wall with cinquefoil stoup. Interior transept crossings with two bay arcades giving entry from chancel and nave to memorial chapels. Nave and chancel roof of six bays, with plastered ceiling between main arch braced trusses supported on original carved corbels. Rood screen, mid C15 with ogee arches. Benches also C15 with carved poppy heads and rosettes. Some re-used panelling at west end of nave. Fragments of C15 stained glass. Font possibly C18 simple bowl on shafted pedastal. Monuments, three tomb chests in chancel, weathered polished limestone, two wall monuments, recessed with brass indented plaques. North trancept monument to Sir John Cotton d.1593, tomb chest with two recumbant figures and open strapwork ornament to canopy. South transept monuments, similar, of marble with recumbant figures on tomb chests with classical details to canopies, to Sir John Cotton d.1689 and to Sir John Cotton and his wife d.1620. Wall monument to Sir John Cotton d.1712 of white marble with two putti by Thomas Aday. Memorial stained glass windows C15.

Pevsner. Buildings of England, p.421 Palmer, W.M. Inscriptions and Coats of Arms of Cambridgeshire 1932. W. Cole. MS. C.R.O. Tretfall, J.B. A Coat of Arms at Landwode. The Conduit. No. 7, 1983.

Listing NGR: TL6232568098