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Longstanton

Cambridgeshire

Parish church, mostly mid-late C14.

Architectural Features

Bell chamber openings are C14 of two cinquefoil openings in two-centred head.

Beast gargoyles to corners of cornice.

South aisle has two stage angle buttresses and restored reticulated tracery to C14 windows.

South chapel, also C14 but restored and reroofed in C19.

Interior: Nave arcade C14-C15 in four bays with two wave moulded orders to two centred arches on octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases.

North aisle has C15-C16 crown posts to lean-to roof.

The South chapel contains monuments to the Hatton family, including a tomb chest of alabaster with effigies of Sir Thomas Halton d. 1658 and his wife Lady Mary, said to be by E. Marshall, and a canopy of 1770.

In the North aisle, reset, is a box pew of late C16 oak, with sunken panelling, frieze of fruit and foliage, dentil cornice and jewelled work to the pilasters.

The chancel has C14 sedilia in three bays with cusped ogee arches in square head.

Font, C15, octagonal with traceried panels to the sides.

C19 funeral bier in North aisle and two C16-C17 oak chests in South aisle.