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St Mary

Whaddon

Cambridgeshire

Early C13 chancel, late C13 to early C14 nave arcades, north and south aisles and clerestorys.

Architectural Features

Late C14 north doorway inserted into opening of former vaulted north porch.

C15 tower and nave and aisle roofs.

Gabled south porch, C14 south doorway with two-centred arch of two wave-moulded orders, with label and head stops.

Nave roof, late C15 of four bays and two half bays, with moulded ridge, purlins and wall plates, principal rafters supported by wall posts and solid curved and moulded braces forming four-centred arches supported on finely carved stone corbels (R.C.H.M. for details).

Font, clunch C15, octagonal bowl with quatrefoil panels supported on an octagonal stem.

Screen of five bays partly restored C15, (blocked rood screen doorway in north wall).

Brass indents in chancel, purbeck marble slab with marginal inscription 1364,

D' Eschallers table tomb 1469.

Wall monument to Robert Allen Hurlock, vicar, d. 1852 and his wife by Thomson and Son, Camb.

Floor slabs in chancel of black marble to Thomas Pickering d. 1661

to Thomas Tempest d. 1644 and Martha his wife d. 1652

to Dame Elizabeth Pickering wife of Henry Pickering d. 1694.

Hatchment in chance) used as an inn sign by the Hardwicke Arms, Arrington for Philip Yorke 3rd Early of Hardwicke d,1834.

Indents at Whaddon, Transactions of Mon Brass Soc.