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St Mary And All The Saints

Willingham

Cambridgeshire

Parish church, mainly early C14, with South aisle and spire restored 1825 and general restoration of 1891.

Architectural Features

West tower with broach spire, early C14.

C14, three-stage broach spire

Parapetted south aisle of similar date to nave, early C14, with restored reticulated tracery, except for C13 window possibly surviving from an earlier church in the west wall.

Large grotesque gargoyles to main cornice.

Inner arch also early C14 of continuous hollow and roll-moulded orders.

The walls of the porch incorporate fragments of moulded stone, some C11 possibly from an earlier church.

The porch is in two bays with restored arcading to the side walls and a late C15 roof with hollow and roll moulding to the purlins, ridge piece and bosses at the intersections.

The Chancel has been extensively restored in early C14 style externally.

C15 brick rood loft stair turret in angle between chancel and North aisle.

The fine angel roof to the nave is in twelve bays, and of C15, restored C19-C20.

Double hammer-beam construction, with three tiers of angels with outstretched wings carved to soffits of hammer beams.

The North and South aisles have fine C15 roofs.

The North aisle has part of C14 parclose screen to the former chapel, the tower panels to the nave are painted with a bird and foliate design.

The South aisle has a more intact C15 parclose screen, with fragments of original painting.

There are C14 wall tombs with ogee arches to both North and South chapels, the one in the North chapel is double.

The chancel was much restored in C19 but retains the original rear arches of C14,

a blocked C13 window with a wide splay, in the North wall.

The pulpit is C16, restored 1894.

The font is C15, octagonal with panelled sides with quatrefoils on octagonal stem.

The nave was richly painted in C15, some areas of which have survived and the figure of St. Christopher has been restored.