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St Andrew

Ufford

Cambridgeshire

5141 UFFORD MAIN STREET (west side) Church of St Andrew TF 0904 40/634 19.3.62 I GV 2.

Architectural Features

From C13 but mainly C14 church.

Late C13 chancel with Early English north and south windows, lancets, Y tracery and cambered arch windows.

C15 ashlar west tower, with clasping buttresses with cusped gabled drip moulds, tall bell openings with 4 centred arches and transom.

C15 ashlar south porch.

Circa 1300 double chamfered chancel arch, one hollow chamfer.

Circa 1300 piscina and triple sedilia in chancel, Depressed tiebeam nave roof.

Some C15 bench ends in north aisle, remainder of seating is C19.

Good C15 octagonal font with alternating sides with tracery and shields, underside of bowl has alternating lions heads and rosettes, and a slim traceried stem and quatrefoil panels to moulded base.

Font cover has crockets and back to back figures at apex.

C17 communion table.

Two late C18 funeral hatchments, Royal Arms of George III and Commandment tables.

Monuments: Bridget Lady Carre 1621, marble with Corinthian columns and reclining effigy.

John Bowne died 1626, erected 1689 and Richard Bowne 1705.