Church of St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay

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[[File:St Marys Church Gamlingay.jpg|thumb|260px|right|Church of St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay]]
The '''Church of St Mary the Virgin''' is the [[parish church]] for the village of [[Gamlingay]] in [[Cambridgeshire]] and is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. Gamlingay is part of the [[ecclesiastical parish]] of Gamlingay with Hatley St George and East Hatley.<ref name=BHO/>

==Design==
St Mary's church is built in the Early English style with a square tower (now containing eight bells) from field stones and local [[ironstone]]. The ground stage of the East wall of the church tower is unusually thick and the tower arch is rather oddly contrived; earlier walling has possibly been encased. A church existed in the parish before 1120 but what can be seen today is no earlier than the 13th-century: this includes the South and North [[nave]] arcades, the North aisle and the [[chancel]]. The South aisle and South chapel date to about 1300 while the West tower and the North porch are also 14th-century additions. Remodelling of the church in the 15th and 16th-centuries affected the entire building except for the nave arcades. During 1442 to 1443 [[Merton College, Oxford]], who were part patrons, spent 151 [[shilling]]s and 2 [[Penny|pence]] on repairs to the chancel. The 14th-century North transeptal chapel was remodelled at the expense of Walter Taylard (d. 1466)<ref>Browne Willis quoted by Cole, B.M. Add. MS. 5810, 13–42. cf. 5819, 8</ref> who was Merton College's steward in Gamlingay and who may have been a descendant of the founder's sister.<ref>E. Hobhouse, ''Sketch of the Life of Walter de Merton (1859)'', pedigree opp. p. 50</ref> The consecration of the high altar and an altar on the North side of the church by [[John Alcock (bishop)|Bishop John Alcock]] in 1490<ref>Gibbons, Ely Records, 413–4</ref> may date when these alterations were finished. The 19th-century and later repairs include a major restoration in 1880 when the vestry and South porch were rebuilt under the direction of J. P. St. Aubyn. Among the church fittings are a [[reredos]] (not in situ) and other items from a bequest made by William Meadston of Woodbury (d. 1683).<ref name=BHO>[http://bit.ly/2MLxsIE Gamlingay - [[British History Online]]]</ref>

==References==



[[Category:13th-century churches in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:13th-century church buildings in England]]
[[Category:Church of England church buildings in Cambridgeshire|Gamlingay]]
[[category:Grade II* listed churches in Cambridgeshire|Gamlingay]]

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