St Clement's Church, Cambridge
St Clement's Church, Cambridge | |
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Archdeaconry of Cambridge | |
Deanery | Cambridge North |
Parish | St Clement, Cambridge |
Clergy | |
Priest in charge | The Revd Andrew Day |
Honorary priest(s) | Fr Andrew Macintosh Fr Robert Van de Weyer |
Curate(s) | The Revd Edward Cearns |
Laity | |
Director of music | Karol Jaworski |
Churchwarden(s) | Barry Johnson Dr Joshua Heath |
St Clement's is a Church of England parish church in central Cambridge. The church is a Grade II* listed building.
Location
The church is located in Bridge Street, Cambridge, part of the central Cambridge conservation area.[1] The churchyard provides a green oasis in the street.[2] The small parish contains many historic buildings, including the Old Vicarage,[3] which adjoins the churchyard.
History
The present church was built in the first half of the 13th century, and it is believed to be on the site of an earlier building.[4][5] The walls are of rubble with some brick with freestone dressings. The building initially consisted of the four west bays of the north and south arcades of the nave. The nave arcades and South door remain from the 13th century. There is an inventory of church goods for the year 1278. The east bay of the arcades appear to have been rebuilt in the 14th century. There is an octagonal, perpendicular font. The first pier on both sides was rebuilt in 1538, the clear-story and aisle windows were added, and north and the south aisles were rebuilt and widened. The advowson passed from St Radegund's Priory to Jesus College.
The present chancel, built in brick, was added in 1726, replacing an earlier one that was demolished in 1568. It contains a fine mural of 1872 on the east wall by Frederick Leach, of Christ in Glory surrounded by angels and saints. The tower, designed by Charles Humfrey, is of cement render and initially had a spire; it was added in 1821–2, after a bequest by William Cole. Pevsner describes the tower as "somewhat silly".[6] A vestry was built on the site of the former north chapel in 1866. The spire was removed from the tower in 1928. A chapel was created in the south aisle in 1933, with screens in Anglo-Baroque style.
The church has the oldest memorial to a
History of church life
A notable Vicar of St Clement's was Canon Edmund Gough de Salis Wood,
His successor was the barrister-priest Fr
Present day
The church housed a
After a long vacancy, a viability plan, drawn up by a working group from the congregation, was accepted by the Bishop of Ely in December 2013. A Priest-in-Charge (Canon Nick Moir) was appointed in June 2014. The church has embarked upon a process of renewal, continuing to stand in the Prayer Book Catholic tradition of the Church of England.[14] In 2016 the church, currently on the Heritage at Risk Register,[15] received a £94,000 grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.[16]
As a traditionalist catholic parish, the PCC of St Clement's passed resolutions A and B of the
In 2022, bellringing group, the Society of Cambridge Youths, installed a ring of bells at the church.[21]
Clergy
- Laurence Chaderton
- William Cowie
- Lionel Gatford
- Arthur Ward
- James Tait Plowden-Wardlaw
References
- ^ https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/sites/www.cambridge.gov.uk/files/docs/historic-core-appraisal-bridge-street.pdf/ [dead link]
- ^ [2] Faber, T. E. (2006) An Intimate History of the Parish of St. Clement in Cambridge 1250-1950. Cambridge, printed privately.
- ^ "A bit of History".
- ^ Bradley, S. & Pevsner. N. (2014) The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire. St Clement (p. 290). Revised Edition. New Haven, Yale University Press.
- ^ British History Online. Churches of the City of Cambridge: St Clement. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol3/pp123-132.
- ^ Cambridgeshire by Nikolaus Pevsner (2nd edition) p.224
- ^ Mascall, E. L. (1992) Saraband: the memoirs of E. L. Mascall. Leominster: Gracewing.
- ^ "SMF".
- ^ "The Regal Power of the Church, or the Fundamentals of the Canon Law: A Dissertation". Macmillan and Bowes. 1888.
- ^ afterwards PLOWDEN-WARDLAW WARDLAW (James Tait) (1935). Catholic Reunion. An Anglican Plea for a Uniate Patriarchate of Canterbury and for an Anglican Ultramontanism. Oxford.
- ISBN 978-0-8010-2795-6.
- ^ "Orthodox Church of St Athanasios, Cambridge".
- ^ "St Ephraim Orthodox Parish".
- ^ "St Clement's Church Cambridge UK - Home". www.stclementscambridge.org. Archived from the original on 5 September 2014.
- ^ "Church of St Clement, Bridge Street, Cambridge - Cambridge". Heritage At Risk. English Heritage. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ "£94k cash boost to help save one of Cambridge's oldest churches". Cambridge News. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ "St Clement's Church Cambridge: LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANT (LPA)" (PDF). Additional Curates Society. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- ^ "St Clement's Church, Cambridge". A Church Near You. The Archbishops’ Council. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ "Directory - Diocese of Ely". The See of Richborough. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ "About Us". St Clement's Church, Cambridge, UK. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ Peel, Adrian (19 May 2022). "St Clement's Church, one of the oldest churches in Cambridge, gets new set of bells". Cambridge Independent. Retrieved 19 May 2022.