Stone church with a crenellated west tower and a tiled roof, set among gravestones in a rural graveyard under a cloudy sky.

Hauxton church (courtesy CAS 531/Z71, R70/55)

St Edmund, Hauxton

History of St Edmund Hauxton

Parish church mainly early C12 with C15 addition and alterations. Pebble, flint, clunch rubble and freestone dressings with steeply pitched plain tile roofs. Plan of West Tower, nave and chancel. West Tower, C15 on plinth with embattled parapet and three-stage diagonal buttressing with newel staircase in North West corner. West window of three cinquefoil lights with vertical tracery in two-centred head. Small single light window to first stage and two-centred arches to bell chamber openings. Nave, c.1120 and originally with North and South transepts, now blocked.

Black and white drawing of a robed mitred figure holding a cross staff, set within a Gothic arch with faint text inscription. — St Thomas of Canterbury, Hauxton church c.1902

A faded wall painting of a figure in a miter within a pointed arch, with a vase of flowers and two candles on a ledge below. — Hauxton church (CAS)

A rectangular stone block set in a wall features a single hole near the top center with faint radiating incised lines below. — Scratch-dial on wall of Hauxton church (J Barham)

Black and white view down the central aisle of a church toward an altar set beneath a stone arch with a high vaulted roof. — Hauxton church interior (courtesy CAS 531/Z75)

A man sits on a tractor pulling machinery through a field near a man with a bicycle, with a church tower in the background. — Hauxton church, Mr Starr (verger) on tractor & Mr Rich, (CAS531/Z86)

A medieval church tower rises behind large haystacks in a field under a cloudy sky, with trees in the background. — Hauxton church (CAS)

A stone church with a tall crenellated tower and a nave set behind a low wall and a road with a wooden fence in the foreground. — Hauxton church (CAS531/Z72)

Read Brenda Purkiss’s article about the church (via https://www.harstonhauxtonnewton.org.uk/hauxton)

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