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Parish Church of St Mary

A Grade I Listed Building in Leighton, Cambridgeshire

  • St Mary: c13 church rebuilt c.1640; Renaissance west tower with round headed windows

  • St Mary: c13 nave & transepts with reticulated windows, double chamfered chancel arch

  • St Mary: chancel, c.1310; four-light east window with c15 four-centred head

  • St Mary: Early English double piscina

  • St Mary: mutilated alabaster effigy of Robert Tyrwhitt of Leighton Bromswold, 1572

  • St Mary: Robert Tyrwhitt of Leighton Bromswold, d.1572, & wife Elizabeth (Oxenbridge), d.1578

  • St Mary: Elizabeth (Oxenbridge), d.1578, wife of Robert Tyrwhitt; author & courtier, governess of Princess Elizabeth

  • St Mary: worn shield from the tomb of Robert Tyrwhitt, d.1572; quarterly 1 & 4 three peewits

  • St Mary: Katherine Tyrwhitt, d.1567, daughter of Robert; similar style to that of her mother

  • St Mary: Katherine Tyrwhitt, d.1567, wife of Henry Darcy of Brimham

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Entry Name: Parish Church of St Mary

Listing Date: 28 January 1958

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1222905

English Heritage Legacy ID: 54787

ID on this website: 101222905

Location: St Mary's Church, Leighton Bromswold, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, PE28

County: Cambridgeshire

District: Huntingdonshire

Civil Parish: Leighton

Traditional County: Huntingdonshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Leighton Bromswold St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Ely

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