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Photo: Andrew Roberts

St Mary & St Michael, Trumpington

History of Trumpington church

Listed Building

There was a large church here by the late C12 or early C13 as the base of the tower and parts of both aisles are of that date. The chancel, with a now demolished NE sacristy, was rebuilt in the late C13, and the rest of the church, including the nave, clerestory, aisles, chapels, porches and upper part of the tower, was rebuilt c.1330. The NW vestry was apparently added in the C16.  (Historic England)

The church is a fine example of a building of the second quarter of the 14th century, with clearstorey lights set above the piers of notably lofty nave-arcades. Among the fittings, the Trumpington tomb is noteworthy and the Trumpington brass is among the earliest and finest in the country. Some fragments of 13th and 14th century glass survive.

Trumpington Church, R Farren 1881

Trumpington Church, R Farren 1881

Royal Commission on Historic Monuments. City of Cambridge 2

Trumpington church, 1936, seen from Hall grounds (MoC259/54)

Sir Roger de Trumpington, 1289

Old cross in Trumpington churchyard

See this article on the Trumpington Local History Group website

and the church’s own website

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