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Gamlingay church stalls c.1442 (RCHM)

St Mary the Virgin, Church Street, Gamlingay

History of St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay

Listed building on Heritage at Risk Register

Parish Church of C13 origin extensively rebuilt in C14-C15. Carrstone and fieldstone with clunch and limestone dressings. West tower, nave with transeptal chapels and north and south aisles, north and south porches, chancel. West tower C13 origin rebuilt in C14-C15. Extensive water penetration from above and below. The building has been the subject of heritage crime. National Lottery Heritage Fund grant bid being developed with strong local community involvement however a recent grant application failed.

Churchyard cross. Medieval.

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary Gamlingay, 1910

Gamlingay Church, (RCHM)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

Gamlingay church, desk end c.1442 (RCHM)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

Gamlingay church, scratching 15th cent. (RCHM)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

Gamlingay church, N arcade, 13th cent (RCHM)

Gamlingay, recess, medieval (RCHM)

Gamlingay, piscina, 15th cent. (RCHM)

Gamlingay church, monument to Ralph Lane 1732 and Elizabeth Lane, 1754 (RCHM)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

Deatil of Gamlibgay map with church by T Langdon 1601 (Merton Collage)

Gamlingay Park estate, 1601 (Downing College)

Gamlingay church 14th cent. (RCHM)

Church, Gamlingay OS 1886

Tithe barn to SE of church. It is on a map of 1601. It was probably rebuilt in the 18th cent. and was burned down c.1968.

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay (RGL2025)

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  • apotropaic
  • church
  • graffiti
  • heritage at risk register
  • Listed building
  • medieval

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