Lode - St James - south porch 2015-02-02

Built 1852-3 to designs of Rohde Hawkins. Lode was a settlement in the parish of Bottisham, adjacent to the lode which connected the village with the River Cam, and had no medieval church. The church at Lode was built as a chapel of ease to Bottisham church; John Hailstone, the vicar of Bottisham, gave £1,090 of the £1,765 cost of building, and £710 of the c. £1,000 raised to provide £40 yearly for the permanent curate whom he employed there [www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol10/pp215-220]. Listing: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1331432 .