Church of All Saints, Little Shelford

Church of All Saints
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Coordinates: 52°08′39″N 0°07′22″E / 52.1442°N 0.1227°E / 52.1442; 0.1227
Location	Church Street, Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, CB22 5HG
Country	England
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Conservative evangelical
Website	www.allsaintslittleshelford.org
History
Status	Active
Dedication	All Saints
Architecture
Functional status	Parish Church
Heritage designation	Grade II* listed
Designated	31 August 1962
Administration
Parish	Little Shelford
Deanery	Granta
Archdeaconry	Cambridge
Diocese	Ely
Clergy
Rector	Simon Scott
Asst Curate(s)	Christopher Henderson

The Church of All Saints is a Church of England parish church in Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire. The church is a Grade II* listed building, and dates from the 12th century.^[1]

History[]

The village church stands by the crossroads with thirteen fine lime trees and an ancient market cross. It dates from pre-Norman times and is one of the oldest in the region.^{[citation needed]} There are stones carved with Saxon plaitwork below a tiny Norman window, a carved coffin stone which may be Saxon in the porch, and in the chapel are four more stones which are probably Norman^{[citation needed]}, like the queer animal with human arms propping up the 13th century chancel arch. The chancel is 14th century. The small sacristy is entered by an ancient door in a rich arch is 15th century, and has holes of three piscinas in a windowsill. The arcaded oak pulpit is Jacobean^{[citation needed]}. The font, like the tiny church spire, is 600 years old^{[citation needed]}.

The stalls have on them the Arms of the family, Lords of the Manor here, whose 15th century chapel (up three stairs) has some fine stone ornament on its piscina and on a canopy over the figure of a saint, with fragments of old glass in its windows. Some of the de Frevilles who died before their chapel was built appear in the chancel in stone and brass. , an alabaster knight with an inscription in Norman French, is here from the beginning of the 14th century, and from the end of it, in brass, are and Claricia, with a greyhound and two dogs at their feet as they clasp hands, their son holding his wife's hand near them in a brass of 1405.

A 15th-century Rector, , has another fine brass portrait.

Present day[]

On 31 August 1962, the church was designated a Grade II* listed building.^[1]

All Saints is within the Conservative Evangelical tradition of the Church of England, and it has passed resolutions to reject the ordination of women.^[2]

Rectors[]

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References[]

External links[]

• Church website
• A Church Near You entry