Description

TL 45SW HARSTON CHURCH STREET (South West Side)

4/128 Church of All Saints 31.8.62 GV II*

Parish church mostly mid-late C14 but there is some evidence of an earlier church on the site. The church was restored c.1853. Flint clunch rubble, pebblestone, dressed clunch and limestone, Slate and plain tiled roof. Plan of West Tower, nave, North and South aisles. North porch and chancel. West Tower of three stages on splayed plinth with embattled parapet with clasping buttresses. Restored C15 two-light west window with vertical tracery. Bell stage has single cinquefoil opening in two centred arch to each side. The nave has a restored C15 clerestory of five, two-light windows to each side. The nave has an embattled parapet. The South aisle is much narrower than the North and is probably rebuilt on the site of part of an early medieval church. The South doorway is C15 and of clunch and has a hollow moulded two centred arch in a square head with foliated spandrels. The three windows were restored in C15 style but the dripmoulds and their masks are original. The chancel was entirely rebuilt in 1853. There is a C15 embattled North porch with original roof and hollow mouldings to an outer two-centred archway. Interior: The wall material is of dressed clunch and the mouldings of the tower arch North and South nave arcade and chancel arch are similar. Nave arcades in five bays. Two centred arches of the wave moulded orders, the outer continuous and two inner on attached columns with moulded two-stage bell shaped base and octagonal capitals. The crown post roof with arch bracing to the tie-beams is C15. It is carried on large corbels, carved with figures. North of the chancel arch is the C15 rood loft staircase. Octagonal with a pyramidal roof. There are C14 piscinas in the North and South aisles. The pulpit is late C15, repaired. Octagonal with door in one side. Each side with ogee arched panels and small buttress pilasters to the corners. R.C.H.M: Record card Pevsner: Buildings of England p.402 V.C.H. (Cambs) Vol VIII p. 178

Listing NGR: TL4180650967

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