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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

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.

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