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St Mary

St Mary

Brampton

Cambridgeshire

Parish church, mentioned in Domesday Survey, 1086

Architectural Features

the chancel is C13

the nave, north and south aisles are C16.

The west tower was built in 1635.

The arcading in the chancel and the choir stalls and misericords are noteworthy.

Four stage west tower, dated 1635 on stone panel.

Embattled with crocketed pinnacles at corners and foliate ornament and gargoyles to main cornice.

Door, window and bell stage openings are all 1635.

Nave, C15 of pebblestone, rebuilt with coursed limestone at west end.

C17 parapet of stone with moulded cornice and six gargoyles and three C18 rainwater heads of lead.

South aisle, C15 also of pebblestone on splayed plinth and with a similar parapet, cornice and gargoyles as nave.

Original plank door with moulded cover strips and fragments of C15 blind tracery.

Chancel, C13.

South wall with C13 south doorway

C14 window with low side.

Two C14 windows, restored.

East window C19 restoration of C13 four-light window.

Two late C13 windows in north wall, of two trefoil lights in two-centred heads.

C16 roof of five bays and six trusses.

Cambered tie beams on jackposts and original corbels, carved.

C16 roofs to north and south aisles with carved bosses at intersections of main beams and rafters.

Chancel has late C13 blind arcading to north and south walls.

North wall with two bays in two centred arches, roll moulded, springing from corbel carved with foliate ornament and one attached column of three grouped shafts with moulded capital.

C13 doorway to C19 vestry.

Early C14 piscina in south wall of chancel.

Trefoil head, gabled and carved with foliate ornament.

Six finely carved choirstalls with misericords, in the chancel.

C14 screen between chancel and nave.

Communion rail, late C17 turned balusters and moulded rail.

Monuments.

In south aisle, wall monument to Sir John Bernard, Bart, 1682 by William Kidwell.

In south wall of west tower, wall monument to John Miller 1681 and Thomas, his son, 1683.

Font C15, octagonal bowl, with each faced carved, on later stem.

Floor slab, in nave to Paulina Jackson, 1689, a member of the Pepys family.