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All Saints

All Saints

Glatton

Cambridgeshire

C13 elements, substantially rebuilt 1629-1671.

Architectural Features

The windows in the north and south walls of the nave and chancel, which are from the C17, have timber lintels and retain their vertical ferramenta bars: those of the nave windows are of three-lights with a transom and hollow-chamfered members, and those of the chancel are of two-lights, with plain chamfering and no transom.

A C13 chancel arch has a single chamfer, set on abaci and with square reveals to the opening.

The tower has a small, square headed, stone door opening with a timber frame, the inner jambs of which appear to be medieval and must have supported an earlier lintel or arch.

HISTORY: A Church on this site is mentioned in the Doomsday Survey of 1086.

The chancel arch and its responds are of C12/C13 and may be predated by the tower

the present building is largely the result of rebuilding campaigns of 1629 and 1665 by the antiquary, Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet and his grandson, Sir John Sir Robert was born here, but lived in London and at nearby Conington (where the Cottons are buried).

A noted antiquary, MP, courtier and collector of manuscripts in 1671 re the VCH.

SOURCES: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire , pp 65-66.