2013

TL4355 : War Memorial, Grantchester

taken 10 years ago, near to Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, England

War Memorial, Grantchester
War Memorial, Grantchester
Grade II listed. LinkExternal link
Grantchester

Grantchester is a village on the River Cam or Granta south of Cambridge. It is listed in the Domesday Book (1086) as Grantesete and Grauntsethe.
Grantchester is said to have the world's highest concentration of Nobel Prize winners, most of these presumably being current or retired academics from the nearby University of Cambridge.
Edwardian poet Rupert Brooke lived in the Old Vicarage.
The village has a church and three pubs (The Red Lion, The Blue Ball and The Green Man). The Rupert Brooke pub is at present closed.

Church of St. Andrew and St Mary, Grantchester

The pretty church of St. Andrew and St Mary is famous in literature as the source of the Rupert Brooke’s time for tea. It is a building of clunch and rubble, with stone quoins and buttresses, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and consists of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, north porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 3 bells.
Parts of the chancel date from the 12th century and the chancel is a small but perfect example of the Decorated style, and has a curious single niche on either side : in the north wall is a low ogee-headed recess, and on the south side a cinquefoiled piscine.
The nave and tower are 15th century. The nave is Perpendicular and retains a recess, and at the east end of the aisle is an altar-tomb, with the matrices of brass effigies of a man, his wife, children and shields of arms, dating to about 1470. The font is believed to be Norman, and the 17th century pulpit probably came from the chapel of Corpus Christi College. The register dates from the year 1539.
Grade II* listed. LinkExternal link


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TL4355, 770 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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N Chadwick   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 27 October, 2013   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 12 March, 2014
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4334 5549 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:10.7428N 0:5.6986E
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OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4336 5549
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West-southwest (about 247 degrees)
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