Parish Church of St Giles, Holme
Description: Parish Church of St Giles
Grade: II*
Date Listed: 13 December 1957
English Heritage Building ID: 400787
OS Grid Reference: TL1893287968
OS Grid Coordinates: 518932, 287968
Latitude/Longitude: 52.4767, -0.2503
Location: Church Street, Holme, Cambridgeshire PE7 3PB
Locality: Holme
Local Authority: Huntingdonshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Postcode: PE7 3PB
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Listing Text
HOLME CHURCH STREET
TL 1887
(North Side)
12/34 Parish church of St
Giles
13.12.57
GV II*
Parish Church. Reused C12 and C13 material from original parish church
demolished and rebuilt in 1862 by Edward Browning. Hammer dressed limestone
walls; plain tiled roofs with parapet gables. South elevation: bellcote to
west end with double linked gables with two bells. Four clerestory windows
with tracery and south aisle windows with square-headed arches and tracery in
Decorated style. South porch and doorway incorporating early material in
jambs of two-centred arches. Two chancel windows of two lancet-lights with
stopped labels. Interior: nave arcades of three bays extended by one bay to
west incorporating the original two-centred arches supported on octagonal and
circular columns with moulded and cushion capitals and moulded bases.
Two-centred chancel arch of two chamfered orders springing from moulded
corbels; organ chamber with two-centred archway on north side of chancel.
Font, plain octagonal bowl recorded in 1851 (VCH). For monuments and wall
plaques see (VCH).
V C H Huntingdonshire, p187
R C H M Huntingdonshire, p140
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p266
Glatton, Holme and Denton, estate map for Wm Wells 1770 H.R.O.
Listing NGR: TL1893287968
Source: English Heritage
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