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St Edmund, Hauxton

History of St Edmund Hauxton

Listed building:

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.

St Thomas of Canterbury, Hauxton church c.1902

Brenda Purkiss’s article about the church:

https://www.harstonhauxtonnewton.org.uk/bpessay.htm

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