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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Little Abington

Cambridgeshire

C11 nave

Architectural Features

base of tower, chancel early C13 and north chapel later C13, west tower rebuilt early C14, south porch c.1500.

Walls of flint rubble with clunch and limestone dressings, C19 red plain tiled roof with patterned ridge tiles.

South doorway C11 with plain circular head and square jambs, chamfered imposts (similar to blocked north door with carved ornament cut back to surface of outer wall).

South porch rebuilt C19 retaining original roof with carved braces and embattled and moulded cornice.

Early C14 window to left hand of two trefoiled-ogee-lights with a quatrefoil in a two-centred arch.

Chancel with parapet gable and cross finial without buttresses, priest's doorway C13 with stop-chamfered jambs and two-centred head with label, restored.

Window to left hand late C14 with two ogee-cinquefoil-lights and transome rebuilt originally for shutters, window to right hand also late C14 of two wide cinquefoil-lights in a square head.

Interior: Chancel arch, two-centred with responds and moulded capitals and bases standing on original C11 nave wall, squint in north most corner with wrought semi circular head, piscina with two two-centred arches enriched with dogtooth ornament with central octagonal shaft with moulded cap and base.

Screen, early C16 with four-centred head to opening with four narrow bays on either side of panels with ogee-cinque-foiled heads with cusped spandrels.

Nave with C13 two-centred arch of two chamfered orders to chapel now used as organ chamber and vestry, the west wall has a two bay wall arcade with two-centred arches and mask stops.

C13 square bowl with stop-chamfered central pier and small octagonal shafts with moulded caps and bases.

South door of nave C14 or C15, feathered boards with round head and planted moulding.

Restored C15 pews.

C17 communion table.

two pieces of C13 coffin lid in south porch.

Monuments: In chancel, white marble tablet to Rev Andrew Penn and others 1800

tablet with gadrooned cornice supporting obelisks and central shield in strapwork with caryatids and verse to Oliver Dalton, 1618

Glass in chancel 'Adoration of Magi', 1901 by Kempe.