Cambridge - St. Benets Church 'Our Lady' - blank backed card c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  'Our Lady' St. Bene't's, Cambridge 
• Publisher: none stated - possibly the church
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• Notes / condition: blank backed card 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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St Bene't's is a Church of England parish church in central Cambridge, England. Parts of the church, most notably the tower, are Anglo-Saxon, and it is the oldest church in Cambridgeshire[1] as well as the oldest building in Cambridge.[2]

Bene't is an attempt to reconcile the Anglo-Norman name Benet with the Latin (and modern English) form of the saint's name Benedict. Latin documents from the thirteenth and fourteenth century refer to "ecclesie sancti Benedicti" while a contract (in English) of 6 June 1452 for a new roof referred to the "cherche of seynt Bennettys". Lyne's map of Cambridge of 1574 shows "Benett Ch" while Loggan's map of 1688 shows "St Bennetts Church". In the nineteenth century the church was variously referred to as being of "St Benedict", "St Benet" or "St Bene't". Modern usage is either "St Benet" or "St Bene't".

The church is on the south side of Bene't Street next to Corpus Christi College.[3] St Bene't's was the College's chapel until 1579. The College remains the church's patron, and there are continuing links between the church and the College chapel.[4

St Bene't's Anglo-Saxon tower was "most probably" built between AD 1000–1050, although the present bell-openings were added in 1586.[1][5] The tower has characteristically Anglo-Saxon long-and-short quoins.[1] These project beyond the rubble face, indicating that the tower used to be rendered, as All Saints' Church, Earls Barton is. Inside the church the 11th-century arch supporting the tower is the most notable feature.[5]

The arcade of the nave is from a rebuilding of c.1300, when the aisles were also rebuilt. The fourteenth-century aisles and the north and east walls of the chancel were razed when the church was widened during two Victorian restorations: in 1853 Raphael Brandon rebuilt the north aisle and added the porch; in 1872 Arthur Blomfield rebuilt the south aisle, the chancel and the clerestory of the nave including the chancel arch. During these works Anglo-Saxon footings of quoins were found which indicated that the original nave was wider than it is today. It is not known when aisles were first added, but it seems likely to have been at a rebuilding before that of c.1300.[6]

In the 13th century the chancel was altered, hence the deeply splayed Early English Gothic lancet windows on the south side (one of which is now blocked).[1] The sedilia and piscina in the chancel are 14th-century, with Decorated Gothic ogeed arches.[7] The clerestory and roof of the nave are late Perpendicular Gothic and date from 1452.[5]

St Bene't's has one monumental brass: a small kneeling figure of Richard Billingford, who died in 1442[7] and had been Master of Corpus Christi College 1398–1432.

The church is a Grade I listed building.[5]