Church

St Bartholomew, Great Stukeley

St Bartholomew, Great Stukeley

St Bartholomew’s on Church Road, Great Stukeley, is a Grade II* medieval parish church in the former county of Huntingdonshire, now Cambridgeshire, in the Diocese of Ely.

Location
Great Stukeley, Cambridgeshire
Country
England
County
Cambridgeshire
City / town
Great Stukeley
Address
Church Road, Great Stukeley, Cambridgeshire, PE28 4AL
Postcode
PE28 4AL
Built
13th-century nave, aisles and chancel; 15th-century west tower; restored 1909–10 (replaces a 12th-century church)
Denomination
Church of England
Dedication
Bartholomew
Diocese
Ely
Parish
The Stukeleys
Grade
II*
Style
Early English and Perpendicular
Materials
Pebble and rubblestone; C15 west tower of Barnack stone; tiled and lead roofs
Grid reference
TL 216 745
Opening hours
Open Wednesdays , Saturdays and Sundays 10am to 4pm.
Access
Ramp or level access available on request. Level access to the main areas

Overview

Domesday records a church at Stukeley. Historic England describes a parish church with thirteenth-century nave, north and south aisles and chancel, and a fifteenth-century west tower, replacing a twelfth-century church on the site. The five-stage Barnack tower stands on a splayed plinth with clasping buttresses; a sundial is incised in the south-west buttress. The nave is pebble and rubblestone with a fifteenth-century clerestory. The south aisle has fourteenth-century fenestration; the south porch is fifteenth-century, later altered.

The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments recorded Norman fragments found in the walls during restoration, a mid-thirteenth-century north arcade, and a late-fifteenth-century tower built in more than one campaign. The church was thoroughly restored in 1909–10. Listed Grade II* on 28 January 1958 (NHLE 1165400). The parish is The Stukeleys.

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