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Latitude: 52.3332 / 52°19'59"N
Longitude: -0.1261 / 0°7'33"W
OS Eastings: 527781
OS Northings: 272224
OS Grid: TL277722
Mapcode National: GBR J2R.QY5
Mapcode Global: VHGLX.RMP6
Plus Code: 9C4X8VMF+7H
Entry Name: Church of All Saints
Listing Date: 30 May 1958
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1330794
English Heritage Legacy ID: 54072
ID on this website: 101330794
Location: Houghton, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, PE28
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Huntingdonshire
Civil Parish: Houghton and Wyton
Built-Up Area: Houghton
Traditional County: Huntingdonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Houghton with Wyton St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Ely
Tagged with: Church building
HOUGHTON AND WYTON CHURCH WALK
1.
5140
Wyton
TL 27 72 12/11 30.5.58 Church of All Saints
I
2.
Formerly parish Church. Early C13 nave, C14 chancel, C19 north aisle, north vestry,
south-west tower and south porch. Mainly pebble-rubble and narrow, coursed rubble-
stone. Barnack stone and clunch dressings. South-west tower dated 1866 (VCH). Of
three stages with small broach spire. Stone ashlar. Angle buttresses. Quatrefoil
blind opening to first stage. Belfry stage has shallow, recessed panels with two
trefoil openings, with pointed heads. Quatrefoil decoration and nail head ornament
to cornice. Roof of nave and chancel plain tiled, leaded. Gable end parapets with
stone coping. C19 stone cornice with foliate, mask and floral boss enrichments.
C19 west window of four trefoil lights with tracery in two centred head. Late C14
south doorway of two moulded orders in two centred head with label with foliate stops
restored C19. South wall of nave has one C19 window and one C15 three cinquefoil
light window with vertical tracery in two centred head with moulded label. C19 south
porch, gabled. C14 chancel with part of south wall early C13. South wall has early
C13 doorway in two-centred arch with moulded label, mask stops and moulded imposts
stopped on each side by four dog-tooth ornaments. One late C14 window of two cinque-
foil lights with moulded label. One early C16 window of three cinquefoil lights in
four-centred head with moulded label. East window late C14 of three cinquefoil lights
with tracery in two-centred head with moulded label. North wall of chancel has late
C13 window of two pointed lights with a moulded label and mask stops. C19 north
vestry with C14 window reset. Two trefoil ogee lights, with remains of quatrefoil
and two-centred head, now cut off horizontally. C19 north aisle with five two-stage
buttresses. Moulded brick band at impost height forming label to three C19 lancet
windows. C13 doorway reset. Two-centred arch of two moulded orders with moulded
label and foliated stops, inner order is roll moulded and outer with detached, restored
shafts with moulded capitals and bases, carved with stiff leaf foliage, moulded hold-
water bases and abaci continued round the inner order as imposts. C19 deal door with
C13 wrough iron work. Foliated ends, dogs head and harpy. Interior: C19 chancel
roof on late C14 stone corbels. C14 two-centred chancel arch of three moulded orders
with moulded label. Responds of two chamfered orders with an attached shaft with
moulded and embattled capitals enriched with carved paterae and lion and human faces.
Moulded bases continued round responds. C19 nave roof. Early C13 north arcade of
four bays. Two-centred arches of two moulded orders. Two eastern piers have each
four keeled shafts divided by subsidiary shafts, all with moulded capitals carved with
stiff leaf foliage, common octagonal abaci, moulded hold-water bases and square
plinths. East respond has an attached half column. The westernmost pier is octagonal
with similar foliage to the capital and bases. West respond has an attached half
octagonal column with carved leaves on the capital. North wall of chancel has 1717
monument to Ainsworth family. Slate. South wall of chancel has 1726 monument to
Hildersley family. Limestone. Fluted pilasters with entablature and swan's neck
pediment.
(RCHM Huntingdonshire p 301).
Listing NGR: TL2778172224
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