Sepia-toned view of a stone church with a tall tower and crenellations, surrounded by a graveyard with scattered headstones.

Grantchester Church, date unknown

St Mary and St Andrew, High Street, Grantchester

History of St Mary and St Andrew

Listed building:

Part of north wall of nave is C12 and some C12 fragments are to be found reset in south wall of south aisle, added in 1876-7. Mid C14 chancel, and late C14 or early C15 west tower.

A lithograph depicts a stone church with a square tower and a large Gothic window, framed by dense trees and a low fence.

Grantchester church, c.1820 litho by W F Varley

A watercolour drawing of a stone church tower and adjacent building behind a low brick wall, framed by trees in a grassy field.

Grantchester church by Henry Moule (MoC22/147/51)

Etching showing an old church with a tall crenellated tower and a surrounding churchyard featuring several stone headstones.

Grantchester Church, R Farren, 1881

A pointed Gothic window with decorative stone tracery and diamond-paned glass set into a weathered stone wall.

Grantchester, poss. 1360 (RCHM)

A narrow, arched stone window frame set into a rubble wall, with its opening filled with stacked stones and masonry blocks.

Grantchester, reset window c.1100 (RCHM)

A tall pointed Gothic window with complex stone tracery set into a wall of flint and stone masonry.

Grantchester church, possible 13th cent. (RCHM)

Interior stone wall of a church featuring three arched windows with stone tracery separated by decorative arched wall niches.

Grantchester church, possibly 1360 (RCHM)

A 19th-century scale model of Grantchester church, featuring a square crenellated tower and a nave with Gothic-arched windows.

Model of Grantchester church, 19th cent. (RCHM)

Black text on a plain background lists memorial details for several members of the Widnall family and Lally Smith.

Widnall family memorial, Grantchester church

1280 Earliest records of the church

1294 Hugh de Shengham rector

Building dates

Built 1100–1199

Source for this date

Built 1100–1199: Listed building: C12 (grade II*)

Projects

Grantchester

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