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St Mary

St Mary

Ely

Cambridgeshire

1082 TL 5379 2/2 23.9.50. {GV} 2.

Architectural Features

Mainly C13 with later work.

The Church was begun in the warly part of the C13 by Bishop Eustace It has a wide nave of 7 bays (Transitional) with slender plain piers and captials with scalloped ornamentation.

THe clerestory is C15.

The fine north doorway is early C13, with orders, columns with shaft riings, stiff-leaf capitals and a pointed arch with chevron ornamentation.

The west tower and stone spire is of the C14.