← Database
St James

St James

Stretham

Cambridgeshire

C14, west tower and north nave arcade.

Architectural Features

Coursed sandstone and limestone with plain tiled roofs and crested ridge tiles.

West tower, C14, of three stages with original angle buttressing, parapet and newel staircase in north-west angle.

Ashlared octagonal spire has two tiers of gable Lucarne lights, C14.

Interior: C14 west tower arch.

North arcade also C14.

Two centred chancel arch of two orders, the inner on corbels carved with stiff leaf foliage.

Monument: North wall of chancel, Anne Brunsell, wife of a rector, and sister of Sir Christopher Wren.

Screen: C15.

Monument: Recess in chancel wall.

Nicholas de Kyngestone, rector in late C13.

Brass: Joan Swan d. 1497.

Font: C13.