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A weathered, ivy-covered stone church tower stands in ruins with a large dark archway at the base and sparse trees nearby.

Silverley church tower (photo R H Sherborn) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

All Saints church, Silverley

History of Silverley church

Listed Building

Church tower. Late C14. … Tower is the remains of the parish church. 


For photos of the ruined church:

Ruins of All Saints & Lost Village of Silverley at Ashley, Cambridgeshire

See also Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (2021)

Four newly discovered eighteenth-century picture of the churches of Ashley and Silverley

In 1752 William Cole commented: There is but one church remaining in this depopulated village, and nothing of the church but the tower, which was formerly a very noble one. It had one of the largest west doors into it I almost ever saw saw for a parish church.

 

Building dates

  • Built by 1399
Source for this date
  • Built by 1399: Listed building: by Late C14

Tags

  • church
  • Listed building
  • medieval

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  • Silverley

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