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All Saints

All Saints

Conington

Cambridgeshire

Roofs concealed by c.1638 embattled and blocked parapets.

Architectural Features

Embattled parapet with main cornice having central gargoyle and a quatrefoil frieze.

The south door is C16.

The chancel is C15 but of earlier date than the nave.

The springers of the vaulting are medieval but are an insertion.

The roof is C19 but C15 in style.

The font is C15.

Monuments: South aisle.

Wall monument: Thomas Cotton and Joan Paris, his wife, inscription reset in C17 monument.

Double wall monument: Thomas Cotton d. 1517 and Lucy Harvey, his wife

Thomas Cotton, d,1592, and Elizabeth Shirley, his wife.

South Chapel: Thomas Cotton: marble wall monument 1662.

Robert Cotton, the antiquary, 1631.

White marble wall monument.

The remaining monuments are C19 to members of Heathcote family.

C15 south aisle screen.

North chapel monuments: John Cotton, 1702.

Pink and white marble wall monument.

At west end of north aisle, wall monument in white marble, Elizabeth Cotton, 1702.

Similar to monument to Sir John Cotton, also 1702, and to the Cotton monument at Conington, near Cambridge, dated 1697 and signed by Grinling Gibbons.