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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth

Cambridgeshire

Early C13 tower survived till 1897

Architectural Features

was rebuilt in C14 style.

Nave replaced in late C13 by nave arcades, north

south aisles and clerestorey added in c.1350.

Chancel c.1330.

South porch late C14 restored in C19, external turret to rood screen C15.

Vestry built to north side of chancel c.1500 demolished c.1750.

Embattled nave, moulded cornice with gargoyles, six restored two-light windows with ogee tracery in flat arches with drip moulds.

Screen, C15 with ogee head to doorway recently painted.

Font of polished C13 purbeck marble, octagonal bowl on circular plinth with eight shafts.

Roof to chancel of five bays with king and queen posts, moulded tie-beans and principle rafters with carved bosses, possibly late C15.

South door wooden planks with notched lap rear frame C14 or earlier (similar to High Roding, Essex)

chancel north door C14.

Brasses.

purbeck marble floor slab with figures of man and woman to 'JOHN TURPIN 1494 with Margaret his wife, also WILLIAM TURPIN Esq Principal of New Inn was here interned - 1575, also JANE TURPIN widow and benefactor to this church and to ye poore - 1597 THOMAS TURPIN - 1627 with ANN his wife and EDWARD TURPIN - 1683 and ELIZABETH his wife and CHILDREN of them'.

Monuments: Nave

black marble tablet with moulded and enriched frame with apron, deaths head and drapery to Geoffrey and Elizabeth Nightingale 1664 and 1681.

in chancel to Ann wife of Rev. W. Cowling 1807, draped figure of man in white marble with inscribed tablet to Henry Butler 1647, black slab to Charlotte widow of Porter Bringlove 1843

Glass in south window of chancel C14

Two C13 coffin lids.