All Saints, Longstanton

All Saints is a Grade I parish church on Rampton Road, Longstanton, Cambridgeshire, in the Diocese of Ely.

Overview

Historic England records a parish church that is mostly mid to late fourteenth century, with restorations of 1886 and 1891 that included the chancel and fenestration. The fabric is fieldstone with clunch dressings now largely replaced by limestone, under tiled roofs. The plan comprises a three-stage embattled west tower with five-stage diagonal buttresses and a south-east newel stair, nave, south porch, north and south aisles, south chapel and chancel. Fourteenth-century bell-chamber openings have two cinquefoil lights in a two-centred head. Beast gargoyles sit at the cornice corners. The limestone ashlar spire has two tiers of gabled lucarnes. The south aisle has two-stage angle buttresses and restored reticulated tracery. The south porch was rebuilt in the nineteenth century. The chancel has a low-side window and a south doorway of two ogee-moulded orders.

The nave arcade is fourteenth- to fifteenth-century, of four bays with two wave-moulded orders on octagonal piers. The north aisle holds an alabaster tomb chest of 1658 said to be by E. Marshall, and reset sixteenth-century oak panelling with a fruit-and-foliage frieze.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1127295
• British Listed Buildings: Church of All Saints, Longstanton