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St Vigor

St Vigor

Fulbourn

Cambridgeshire

TL 5256 FULBOURN MANOR WALK (North East Side) Church of St. Vigor 11/31 31.8.62 II* GV Parish church, C13 chancel

Architectural Features

west tower with C14 navel and north and south aisles.

of C13 work, including the west doorway of two chamfered orders in two centred arch with moulded label.

South porch of C14-C15 origins but restored by Blomfield with C13 style outer archway.

Nave has restored C15 clerestorey of three windows, each with two trefoil lights in square head.

C14 style fenestration to south aisle.

The south transept, C15, embattled with beast gargoyles and crocketed pinnacles to the corners.

Chancel is C13 in origin with opposing lancet windows to north and south walls and restored east window of five graduated lancets.

The north transept was added in 1869 but the north aisle retains two windows of two cinquefoil lights, in two centred arches, C14 and of clunch.

Moulded capital and base are good examples of C14 work.

Pulpit: C14 of oak, repaired base with inserted C15 panels of St. John the Divine and St. Elizabeth of Hungary to two sides.

Octagonal, the rest of the sides are open, and have trefoil cusping to ogee arches in square heads, the spandrels filled with varied carving of birds and flowers.

John Careway, rector of Fulbourn, 1443.

Large brass monument in chancel floor to William of Fulbourn, rector, 1377-86 and another, smaller to Geoffrey Bysschop, vicar of All Saints, Fulbourn, another church in the same churchyard as St. Vigors, demolished in C18.

Other brasses are in the wall between the south transept and the nave.

Large monument, probably clunch, late C16 or early C17, reset

Also in south transept a blank marble wall monument to Tyrell Dalton, 1682.