Wisbech St Mary
| Wisbech St Mary | |
| Cambridgeshire | |
|---|---|
 Station House, Wisbech St Mary | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF423083 |
| Location: | 52°39’14"N, -0°6’8"E |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | PE13 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Fenland |
Wisbech St Mary is a small village in the north of Cambridgeshire. It is to be found 2 miles west of the town of Wisbech, alone in the fen, in a corner of the lanes crossing the farmland. It may seem though a parent village for the farms and tiny hamlets in the fen hereabouts, such as Tholomas Drove to the south.
The village is off the main roads, between the B1169 and the A47 roads. It is built on an old watercourse, a roddon; such sand and silt beds are firmer and rise higher than the surrounding shrinking peat fens.[1]
The village has a church, a primary school and some public houses.
Parish church
The parish church is, unsurprisingly, St Mary’s.
It is big church for a small village, late Perpendicular Gothic in style. The tower is of the 14th century, square-built with cross-buttresses and brick crenelation. Pevsner observes that the columns of the arcade, though 14th century, sit on Norman bases.[2]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Hall 1996, p. 171.
- ↑ St Mary’s - Cambridgeshire Churches
- Hall, David (1996). The Fenland Project. Cambridgeshire Archaeological Committee in conjunction with the Fenland Project Committee and the Scole Archaeological Committee. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=IwnlAAAAMAAJ.