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Built in 1881. Designed by J. B. Everard of Leicester, a civil engineer, it replaced a bridge of 1863 which had been designed by a local architect, and which was destroyed in a flood. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1359564 .

Seen from beneath the early C20 tower screen. The church was rebuilt c.1482-85. The pews date from the internal re-ordering in 1845 designed by Edward Browning and carried out at the expense of the Marquess of Exeter of Burghley House. The tomb of the Marquess's ancestor, William Cecil, 1st baron Burghley , is just visible on the N side of the chancel, with the Cecil family chapel to its N. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1169102 . RCHM report: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/pp6-36 , item 31

Cecil was one of Queen Elizabeth I's leading advisers, holding the post of Lord Treasurer from 1572 until his death. The monument is attributed to Cornelius Cure , an English-born sculptor of Dutch parentage.

Incorporating 15th-century glass presented to the earl of Exeter, mostly from Tattershall church, re-set by William Peckitt in 1759-60. For details see the RCHM report: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/pp6-36 , item 31.

The monument is by Pierre-Étienne Monnot , a French sculptor working in Rome. Although it carries the date 1704, the inscription [of which there is a translation in Samuel Sharp's A handbook of Burghley, Northamptonshire (1851), p.17n] says that the earl commissioned it during his lifetime: "when he was in Italy, whilst he thoroughly examined and as curiously collected the works of choicest art, there he caused this monument to be made, where it could be most exquisitely done". "Being well instructed in polite letters, he went abroad more than once and, from the most refined parts of Europe, brought home much knowledge of antiquities, languages and civil affairs"; his wife, Anne, daughter of William Cavendish, earl of Devonshire, was "the companion of his virtues and travels, and, in a manner, of his studies" - hence, presumably, the book that she holds, as well as the books beneath the cushion on which the earl rests. The flanking figures represent victory and art.

By Giovanni Maria Benzoni of Rome, 1864.

Presumably erected at the behest of the 3rd marquess of Exeter , who had served as Lord Treasurer of the [royal] Household in 1866-7. On succeeding to the marquessate, he was appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, a post which he continued to hold under Disraeli's premiership, but he never held major political office.

Memorials to members of the Cecil family buried in Kensal Green cemetery: the lower memorial is to Lord Thomas Cecil (1797-1873), "formerly Colonel of 10th Hussars", the second son of the first Marquis of Exeter; the upper memorial is to Lady Sophia Cecil (1809-1902), daughter of Charles, 4th duke of Richmond, "who gave the ball at Brussels (of which she was a spectator) on the eve of Waterloo".

From SE at dusk. St Mary's tower is C13; the spire C14. List description for St Mary: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1062961 .

From SW. St Mary's tower is C13; the spire C14. List description for St Mary: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1062961 .

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 .

Built 1852-3 to designs of Rohde Hawkins . The roof was replaced in 1886-7. A Victorian period piece, apart from the C18 (or C18-style) chandelier: 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 .

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 ].

Heraldry carved from Welsh slate by David Kindersley, 1966; the inscription below was also carved by him in slate in 1967, with a Siena marble surround. For Fairhaven and Anglesey Abbey, see www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/sets/72157625281317015... .

From W. Commissioned by the 1st Baron Fairhaven of Anglesey Abbey and designed by Sir Albert Richardson, Houfe and Partners, 1961-2. It was curiosity about this chapel that led me to visit the church but I felt that the chapel was not only physically cold, but aesthetically and spiritually cold too.