Description

TL 76 NE CAVENHAM THE STREET

7/12 Church of St. Andrew
7/5/54
- II*

Church, mediaeval, restored 1870. Nave, chancel, west tower and south porch.
Flint rubble, with areas of plaster-work; limestone dressings. Plaintiled
roofs (the tower roof is flat behind crenellated parapets). Parapet gables;
the kneeler stones at 2 south corners of nave have figure-carving, and on the
north dog-tooth, all of C13. Early C13 walling to chancel, with 2 lancets and
a 3rd blocked; hood-moulded priests doorway. Various alterations throughout
C14. In south chancel wall is an early C14 low-side window, containing border
glass and the inscription: "PRIEZ POR ADAM LA VICAR". 2 similar windows in
nave. Small unbuttressed tower, perhaps of early C14; foundations and gable-
weathering survive from a cell at the west end, perhaps a porch with room
above; it was demolished by C18. The tower has lion-head gargoyles and
restored 2-light belfry openings. A plain C14 west doorway with sub-mediaeval
oak-mullioned window above. A mid C14 chancel window has dropped-cill sedila
and a linked piscina with crocketed pediment and corner shaft. Opposite is a
little reliquary recess. Several C14 windows, some with good but decaying
clunch tracery. Simple late C14 north and south doorways, and south porch with
pilastered doorway. Late C14 chancel arch, with much-altered screen; painted
boarded lower panels; the upper tracery renewed C16, and the strapwork central
drop-tracery early C17. Octagonal limestone font, perhaps late C14, with
circular bowl. Plain C17 octagonal pulpit. A C15 figure wall-painting on the
north wall. In the chancel a wall-tablet to William Webb, d. 1754. In the
nave, a floor brass to John Symunt,d. 1588. Flanking the east window of 1870
are 2 panels of c.1800 with painted Ten Commandments.

Listing NGR: TL7636069682

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534872

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)