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St Mary

Orton Waterville

Cambridgeshire

5141 ORTON WATERVILLE CHERRY ORTON ROAD (east side) Church of St Mary TL 1596 53/473 13.12.57 I GV 2.

Architectural Features

Built from late C13.

Nave has moulded parapet and small C15 two-light square-headed clerestorey windows.

North and south aisles remodelled circa 1330-40 with reticulated tracery windows, east windows of 2-lights, double-chamfered north doorway, outer chamfer hollow.

Chancel rebuilt late C16 or early C17 with straight-headed windows, 2-light north and south and 4-light east windows with re-used material.

Unbuttressed west tower with C15 top stage, 3 stages, top stage has Perpendicular bell-openings and embattled parapet with quatrefoil panels.

The north arcade is Perpendicular with reused C12 pier bases, the centre pier of south arcade has stiff-leaf capital.

C16 low-pitched tie-beam chancel roof.

C14 piscinae in north and south aisles.

Very fine late C16 pulpit from Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge, hexagonal blank arches with dog-tooth, and pilasters with arabesque decoration, caryatids supporting cornice, and pulvinated frieze at base.

Circa 1300 plain octagonal font, stem has 4 octagonal shafts.

Stuart Royal Arms.