Description

TL 46SW OAKINGTON HIGH STREET (South East Side)

8/85 Church of 31.8.62 St. Andrew

II*

Parish church, early and late C13, C15 and C19. Mid C20 repairs to fenestration. Pebblestone, pudding stone, limestone rubble and limestone dressings. C19 tiled roofs with end parapets. West tower, nave, North and South aisles, South porch and chancel. West tower, late C13, of coursed pebblestone, rubblestone with some re-used tiles, on splayed plinth with embattled parapet with gargoyles. Four stages. West doorway two centred with two chamfered orders. West window restored but bell chamber openings are original. The original gable of the C13 roof to the nave can be seen in the East wall of the tower. South aisle, C13 in origin but rebuilt in C15. Restored fenestration with vertical tracery and in West wall a C13 lancet, now blocked, remains. Low pitch parapetted roof. South porch, C19 but the inner arch is C13, two centred and of two chamfered orders with the outer on restored shafts. (Similar to Longstanton St. Michael q.v.). Chancel is early C13 with restored lancets to South wall, but the South doorway with a single chamfered order in a pointed arch is original. East window C19. North doorway rebuilt in C15 when four centred arch in square head inserted. Interior: Nave arcade in five bays. Two centred single chamfered of round columns, moulded capitals and holdwater bases may be a little earlier. The North arcade has similar arches and labels on octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases. The roofs are all C19. North chapel has two C15 niches flanking one window each with cusped ogee arches and small vaulted canopies. Chancel arch is of similar date to nave arcades. There are chamfered rear arches to the windows in the North and South walls of the chancel. The piscina and sedilia were removed during the C19 restoration. There are several early C13 tomb slabs, reset, with omega ornament. The font is C13. Square on octagonal stem with subsidiary octagonal stems. The sides of the basin are carved, two have round headed arcading in three bays, and one has similar arcading but in only two bays. Pevsner. Buildings of England p.444 R.C.H.M. record card

Listing NGR: TL4149264799

External Links

• Church of St Andrew at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17550549

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