Description

MORBORNE MORBORNE
TL 1291
19/98 Parish Church of All
Saints
13.12.57
I
Parish church. C12 chancel arch and nave, mid C13 chancel, north aisle
c.1240, south transept and south aisle c.1250-60. Aisle walls rebuilt
possibly in C16 and west tower and north porch. Restorations, 1864 and
1900-1, Thompson and Son builders, east part of south wall of chancel rebuilt.
Walls of coursed limestone and pebble rubble with dressings of Barnack and
Ketton stone, tower of red brick with rubbed brick details and ashlar
buttresses. Roofs of Collyweston stone slates. South elevation: West tower
of two stages with embattled parapet and small pinnacles at the angles.
Belfry window of two three-centred lights in a square head with moulded label.
C17 sundial. Nave with parapet gables; south aisle window C16 single
round-headed light, reset south doorway (similar to north doorway), C12 with
two-centred head of two orders, the outer plain with shafted jambs and
water-leaf capitals and the inner chamfered and continuous. South transept
C13 window of three lancet-lights in a segmental head with moulded label.
Chancel windows c.1250, of one and two lancet-lights with a round light above.
Interior: Nave arcades of three bays; north arcade c.1240 with two-centred
arches of two chamfered orders, round columns with moulded capitals and bases
on square plinths with spurs, chamfered label on south side with rosette, head
and mask stops; south arcade c.1250 similar to north but with nail-head
ornament to capitals. Tower arch formerly the west window of the nave cut
down. Chancel arch C12, two-centred of two roll-moulded orders, the inner
with two rolls and outer with roll and band of diaper patterning, shafted
jambs correspond with orders with moulded cushion capitals with cable ornament
and abaci and bases with flat zig-zag ornament. Piscina and sedilia in
chancel; C13 with moulded jambs, and pointed segmental head with foliate and
head stops, double piscena with moulded jambs, central shaft two-centred heads
with carved flower-bosses, spandrel further carved with fleur-de-lis and two
rosettes, above three niches with pointed heads; sedilia with plain seat.
Font, C13 round bowl on modern stem and base; C12 font in south transept.
Monuments of priest in relief with mass-vestments C13, in south aisle; in
south transept to Thomas Woods 1700. Floor slab in north aisle to wife of
Thomas Butler 1680, for other monuments and floor slabs see VCH and RCHM.

RCHM Huntingdonshire p184
VCH Huntingdonshire p188
Pevsner Buildings of England p295

Listing NGR: TL1391991500

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527902

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)