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Church of All Saints

A Grade I Listed Building in Conington, Cambridgeshire

  • Church of All Saints

  • Church of All Saints

  • All Saints Church

  • Nave pews with poppy heads

  • Porch boss

  • South chapel memorials to the Cotton family

  • Nave, looking east

  • Sanctuary of All Saints'

  • Pulpit

  • All Saints: late c15 estate church set in grounds of Conington Hall; embattled nave & aisles, tall clerestory, four-light aisle windows

  • All Saints: ashlar faced, late c15 four-stage west tower; panelled polygonal buttresses; large pinnacles added by Thomas Cotton in 1638

  • All Saints: nave with four bay arcades with complex Perpendicular section

  • All Saints: nave looking west towards tower

  • All Saints: straight topped sedilia with three hanging vaults; reticulated frieze below; piscina to the left

  • All Saints: Purbeck marble effigy of knight, c.1330 in robes of Franciscan Tertiary; possibly of the de Brus family

  • All Saints: monument of c.1603 by Robert Cotton (antiquary) featuring Prince Henry of Scotland (1115-1152)

  • All Saints: monument of c.1603 by Robert Cotton (antiquary) featuring David, 4th Earl of Huntingdon, d.1219, with arms of kings whom he was descended

  • All Saints: monument to Thomas Cotton of Conington, d.1517, & wife Johanna Parys of Linton

  • All Saints: inscription from the monument to Thomas Cotton of Conington, d.1517

  • All Saints: double monument to Thomas Cotton of Conington, d.1592, with wife Elizabeth Shirley of Stanton Harold & Thomas Cotton, d.1574, with wife Lucy Harvey of Elmesthorpe

  • All Saints: memorial to Robert Cotton, first Baronet of Conington (antiquary), d.1631; bust in oval recess, laurel garland

  • All Saints: memorial to Thomas Cotton, second Baronet of Conington, d.1662; bust in circular recess, bay garland

  • All Saints: memorial to John Cotton, third Baronet of Conington, d.1702

  • All Saints: inscription from the monument to John Cotton, third Baronet, d.1702

  • All Saints: Elizabeth Honeywood of Marks Hall, d.1702, wife of John Cotton, third Baronet; portrait above framed by palms, cherub heads below

  • All Saints: inscription from the memorial to Elizabeth Honeywood of Marks Hall, d.1702

  • All Saints: various Victorian memorials to the Heathcotes with Gothic frames

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Entry Name: Church of All Saints

Listing Date: 28 January 1958

Last Amended: 2 March 1987

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1162630

English Heritage Legacy ID: 54666

ID on this website: 101162630

Location: Holy Cross Church, Conington, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, PE7

County: Cambridgeshire

District: Huntingdonshire

Civil Parish: Conington

Traditional County: Huntingdonshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Holme St Giles

Church of England Diocese: Ely

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