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The stone tower of St Botolph's Church features a round clock face, arched window, and crenelated top against a clear sky.

St Botolph’s Church, Cambridge

History of St Botolph's Church

St Botolph’s is essentially an early C14 church according to Pevsner, with some remains of the earlier mid-C12 building.

An ink drawing featuring a street scene with a church tower, a second smaller tower, and handwritten text on paper.

St Botolph Trumpjngton Street, R Farren 1881

More information can be found on Wikipedia.

A black-and-white line engraving of a street scene featuring St Botolph’s church, college buildings, a horse-drawn carriage.

St Botolph’s circa 1840

In the church yard is buried James Essex, 18th century architect. Essex married Elizabeth Thurlbourne, the daughter of a Cambridge bookseller. They had two children: James, who died in infancy in 1757, and Millicent, who married, on 10 May 1785, the Rev. John Hammond, sometime fellow of Queens’ College. She died in January 1787.

An ornate, octagonal stone font with black marble columns and a decorative canopy stands on a stone base inside a church.

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

The interior of a church with white stone arches, wooden pews featuring colorful needlepoint cushions, and a stained glass window.

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

Stained glass window featuring a central crucifixion scene flanked by figures, with smaller panels and text scrolls below.

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

A painting of a kneeling angel with a golden halo and patterned robes, set against a dark background with gothic lettering.

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

A painted panel shows a woman with a halo sitting on a wooden chair beside a vase of lilies, with gold text on a red border.

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

Stained glass window with three arched panels depicting robed figures, decorative tracery, and Latin inscriptions at the base.

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

A dark, vaulted wooden ceiling with a grid of panels featuring circular floral carvings, above a pointed stained-glass window.

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

A framed painting in a church shows three haloed figures standing before a rock tomb, with inscribed text in the lower panels.

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

A painting in a decorative frame shows three figures with halos standing near a cave entrance, with text panels below.

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

A vaulted church ceiling with dark, patterned panels framed by white stone arches and pillars leading to a distant window.

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

Three-panel stained glass window featuring biblical scenes, geometric patterns, and small figures in the upper tracery.

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

Interior of St Botolph’s Church with rows of wooden pews featuring colorful needlepoint cushions under white arched pillars.

St Botolph, Cambridge (RGL2026)

 

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