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All Saints

All Saints

Morborne

Cambridgeshire

MORBORNE MORBORNE TL 1291 19/98 Parish Church of All Saints 13.12.57 I Parish church.

Architectural Features

C12 chancel arch

nave, mid C13 chancel, north aisle c.1240, south transept and south aisle c.1250-60.

Aisle walls rebuilt possibly in C16 and west tower and north porch.

C17 sundial.

south aisle window C16 single round-headed light, reset south doorway (similar to north doorway), C12 with two-centred head of two orders, the outer plain with shafted jambs and water-leaf capitals and the inner chamfered and continuous.

South transept C13 window of three lancet-lights in a segmental head with moulded label.

Chancel windows c.1250, of one and two lancet-lights with a round light above.

north arcade c.1240 with two-centred arches of two chamfered orders, round columns with moulded capitals and bases on square plinths with spurs, chamfered label on south side with rosette, head and mask stops

south arcade c.1250 similar to north but with nail-head ornament to capitals.

Chancel arch C12, two-centred of two roll-moulded orders, the inner with two rolls and outer with roll and band of diaper patterning, shafted jambs correspond with orders with moulded cushion capitals with cable ornament and abaci and bases with flat zig-zag ornament.

C13 with moulded jambs, and pointed segmental head with foliate and head stops, double piscena with moulded jambs, central shaft two-centred heads with carved flower-bosses, spandrel further carved with fleur-de-lis and two rosettes, above three niches with pointed heads

TL1391 : Old font in the churchyard, Morborne

Font, C13 round bowl on modern stem and base

TL1391 : Old font in the churchyard, Morborne

© Jonathan Thacker

C12 font in south transept.

Monuments of priest in relief with mass-vestments C13, in south aisle

Floor slab in north aisle to wife of Thomas Butler 1680, for other monuments and floor slabs see VCH and RCHM.