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A low stone church with a pyramid-roofed tower and a tiled roof featuring dormer windows, set behind a crowded graveyard.

St Andrew Sawtry c1880

St Andrew, Sawtry

History of St Andrew

A detail from a 1901 Ordnance Survey map showing the site of St Andrew's Church near Chapel Houses in Sawtry.

Sawtry OS 1901

In 1880 both old churches in Sawtry were demolished, All Saints and St Andrews, and a new All Saints was erected. The old cemetery of St Andrews survives next to the A1. It includes the grave of a Leicestershire man killed in a duel with his best friend in 1756.

(Huntingdonshire Through Time, Akeroyd and Clifford)

Sources

  • Ordnance Survey

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