. Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely . work hasornamented gable, with barge board. Plain octa-gonal font, Dec. A brick chamber {horride visa)has been built N. of chancel for organ. S. chancelexterior wall has fragments of Norm, of porch are remains of early window in projecting part of gable stones are twosmall heads. The tower has angle pinnacles andgargoyles. Fine monumental slab to ThomasWybrow {ob. 1669). [The Rectory of Impington,which belonged to the monks of Ely, was appro-priated to their library.] Register, 1562. , 1599. Restored, 1879. Isleham, S
. Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely . work hasornamented gable, with barge board. Plain octa-gonal font, Dec. A brick chamber {horride visa)has been built N. of chancel for organ. S. chancelexterior wall has fragments of Norm, of porch are remains of early window in projecting part of gable stones are twosmall heads. The tower has angle pinnacles andgargoyles. Fine monumental slab to ThomasWybrow {ob. 1669). [The Rectory of Impington,which belonged to the monks of Ely, was appro-priated to their library.] Register, 1562. , 1599. Restored, 1879. Isleham, of Cambridge.—St. A^tdrew:A fine 14th cent, cruciform church, rich inmonuments and brasses. Chancel, clerestoriednave, aisle, transepts, S. porch, embattled with low spire, clock, five bells. Chancelhas good E. window, five fights, partly filledwith stained glass. Windows N. and S. sameperiod, Dec. to Perp., but different pattern. Anoriginal vestry with lean-to roof. On N. sidean angular piscina, and wide stone seat for. ICKLETON, ST. MARY MAGDALENE. NAVE ANDSOUTH AISLE ARCADE CAMBRIDGESHIRE 109 sedilia. There are Perp. stalls and arch wide and lofty, trans, from Perp. Elizabethan rood-screen. Nave fivebays, lofty drop arches. Piers of semicircularshafts, with bowtell in angle between arches, a floral band with battlement. Thespandrils between arches are richly panelled,and have shields with the Peyton and Bernardarms. Clerestory and roof fine Perp. Roof hasPerp. panelling between tie-beams and princi-pals, and carved angels for hammer-beams. Along running inscription on cornice, in carvedraised letters, records its erection by CrystoferPeyton, 1495. N. transept, mainly Dec, hasgood piscina. Sepulchral recess with crocketedcanopy. The effigy under it clad in transept inclines to Perp. Two monumentsof the Peytons, with canopies on columns andeffigies, c. 1500. Table monument with knightseffigy under cinquefoil ogee arc
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