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St Swithun

Great Chishill

Cambridgeshire

C13 nave and chancel wall.

Architectural Features

South nave arcade c.1275.

Chancel rebuilt c.1330, south aisle late C14 and clerestorey windows.

tower C15.

Chancel arch two-centred with light continuous outer chamfered order and inner chamfered order springing from defaced carved corbels

Organ chamber opening in north wall, vestry with resited window c.1330.

Nave roof C15 of four bays with tie beams supported on wall-posts and curved braces with traceried spandrels, king-posts and queen-posts to ridge and side purlins.

South porch C15 roof with rafters laid flat.

Carved lamp bracket above south door.

Font, late C14 octagonal bowl witn quatrefoil panels and moulded soffit, plain octagonal to square stem.

Glass C15 fragments in north and south aisles.

Inscriptions on tower arch from C15.

Brass of a shield in floor of tower, and four indents of figures with inscription plates.

Monuments: In chancel, to Hon.John Cooke d. 1701 'High Sheriffe of This County of Essex by especial appointment of King William'. .

floor slab in sanctuary to Hon John Cooke d. 1701, and Jane Cooke d. 1681

in tower, to George Brownest 1650

to Samuel Harris, citizen and brewer of London d. 1681.