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Parish Church of St Edmund or St James

A Grade I Listed Building in Blunham, Central Bedfordshire

  • St James & St Edmund: c14 (apart from tower), restored 1862

  • St James & St Edmund: ironstone west tower (c12-c16), clasping buttresses, eight pinnacles, Perpendicular windows

  • St James & St Edmund: Perpendicular arcades & chancel arch

  • St James & St Edmund: nave looking west towards Norman tower arch

  • St James & St Edmund: c13 chancel, Decorated windows

  • St James & St Edmund: Decorated cusped & sub-cusped tomb recess with ogee arch

  • St James & St Edmund: Richard Maulaye, mercer, & wife Alice, 1506; man in long, loose gown with wide sleeves, wife in tight fitting bodice & embroidered girdle

  • St James & St Edmund: cinquefoiled piscina in south chapel

  • St James & St Edmund: Perpendicular stone screen; six mullions below, trefoil tracery above

  • St James & St Edmund: Susanna Longueville, wife of Sir Michael & daughter of Charles Grey, 7th Earl of Kent, 1620; two sons above

  • St James & St Edmund: detail of alabaster monument to Susanna Longueville, 1620

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Entry Name: Parish Church of St Edmund or St James

Listing Date: 31 October 1966

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1321759

English Heritage Legacy ID: 37942

ID on this website: 101321759

Location: St James Church, Blunham, Central Bedfordshire, MK44

County: Central Bedfordshire

Civil Parish: Blunham

Built-Up Area: Blunham

Traditional County: Bedfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bedfordshire

Church of England Parish: Blunham

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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