List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
List Entry Number: 1179413
Location
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, STOW ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Cambridgeshire
District: South Cambridgeshire
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Stow cum Quy
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 31-Aug-1962
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 50688
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History
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Details
TL 55 NW STOW-CUM-QUY STOW ROAD
(East Side)
10/142 Parish Church of
31.8.62 St Mary
II*
Parish church. Nave window C12, early C13 trancept chapels,
rebuilt early C14 chancel and nave arcades with north and south
aisles. West tower late C14. Clerestorey c.1500. Two chancel
windows unblocked in 1665. East wall of chancel rebuilt and
chancel reduced in length in 1739. Church restored c.1885 by W.
White (1825-1900) when wooden belfry was reconstructed in flint
and stone. Flint and rubble walls with Barnack limestone and
clunch dressings. Plain tile and lead roofs. North elevation.
Chancel C15 window of three cinquefoil lights, and C14 window of
two, cinquefoiled ogee-lights. Clerestorey with plain parapet
and cornice has four, two-light windows; aisle and north
transept with similar parapet and modern gabled porch. Three
two-light windows include two, original C14 clunch windows with
mouchette tracery, and with large segmental foiled triangle in
head. North entrance, restored two-centred arch with continuous
moulded jambs. West tower of three stages with plain parapet
and two-light belfry window. Interior. Chancel arch of two
chamfered orders springing from semi octagonal shafts with
moulded capitals. North and south walls have two bays of C14
arcading. Nave arcade of four bays to north and three similar
bays to south, early C14 two-centred arches springing from piers
with four attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases. The
eastern arch of south arcade has dog-tooth ornament and is early
C13. Tower arch of two chamfered orders with attached shafts,
moulded caps and bases. Part of blocked round headed arch of
C12 window of south arcade points to an aisless C12 church.
Nave roof early C16 of four bays restored. With hung post
trusses and curved braces with arcade tracery in spandrels.
False hammer beams over clerestorey window. Carved bosses at
intersections of moulded main timbers. Aisle roofs with carved
braces. Font C15, octagonal bowl with foiled panels and
shield. Two hatchments C18 or early C19. Two wall paintings in
nave. Early C15 screen of five bays. For brasses, brass
indents, monuments and floor slabs see R.C.H.M. East Cambs.
R.C.H.M.: East Cambs p. 92, mon. 1.
Hill, A.G. Arch Notes of Ch of Cambs p. 160, 1880
Listing NGR: TL5158559902
Selected Sources
Books and journalsHill, A G , Architectural Notes of Churches of Cambridgeshire, (1880), 160
OtherAn Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
Map
National Grid Reference: TL 51585 59902
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