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St Swithin

St Swithin

Old Weston

Cambridgeshire

TL 0877 OLD WESTON BRINGTON ROAD (East side) 17/76 Parish Church of 28.1.58 St Swithin II* Parish church.

Architectural Features

North doorway c.1200, nave arcades late C13, chancel rebuilt c.1300, mid C14 north and south aisles, south porch and clerestory added, late C14 west tower.

East wall of chancel and western walls of north aisle rebuilt in C15.

Roofs of nave reconstructed in 1657

the north aisle in 1638, and south aisle in 1785.

South elevation: West tower faced with rough ashlar, of three stages with weathered plinth and cornice with gargoyles, belfry window of two transomed and trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in the two-centred head.

South aisle with late C15 eastern window of three cinquefoiled- lights in a four-centred head

with traceried spandrels in square moulded label, western window mid C14 of two trefoiled-ogee-lights in a square head with moulded label.

Late C14 south porch with gabled roof, two-centred archway of two chamfered orders the outer continuous and the inner springing from attached shafts with moulded capitals.

Interior: South doorway to south aisle C14 of two orders, with two-centred arch, door restored with two fleur-de-lis strap hinges.

Piscenae in chancel with hollow-chamfered jambs and trefoiled head early C14, in south aisle with moulded jambs and trefoiled ogee head.

Font, C14, octagonal bowl with modern base and stem.

of nave c.1657 incorporating early material of four, low-pitched bays with cambered tie-beams

short king-posts with curved tie beams, wall posts on C16 corbels with carved grotesque heads

inscription on western tie beam 'R.A. 1657 R.E. church W'

north aisle with moulded timbers and dated tie beam 1638, south aisle c.1785.

Wall paintings of note in south aisle, C14 depicting the enthronement of one bishop by two other bishops, the beheading of St John the Baptist and St Margaret and St Catherine with other fragments including a Wheel of Fortune.

For monuments and wall slabs see RCHM.