Lode - St James - east window 2015-02-02

By Ward and Hughes, commemorating John Hailstone, "the founder of this church", who died in 1871. 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; Hailstone, who was 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].