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|name=Steeple Gidding<br />
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'''Steeple Gidding''' is a tiny hamlet in [[Huntingdonshire]], near [[Sawtry]] and about 10 miles northeast of [[Huntingdon]]. It is one of the three Giddings, with [[Great Gidding]] and [[Little Gidding]].<br />
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The village is just a few houses and the parish church, all on a little lane ending in a path leading out across the fields, a spur of the minor through road running southeast from Great Gidding.<br />
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==Parish church==<br />
St Andrew's Church is an impressive though redundant [[Church of England]] church at the head of the lane.<ref>[http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/St-Andrews-Church-Steeple-Gidding-Cambridgeshire/ Churches Conservation Trust] – St Andrew's, Steeple Gidding</ref> It has been designated by [[English Heritage]] as a Grade&nbsp;II* listed building.<ref name=hg>{{Citation |url=http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=54803&resourceID=5|title=Parish Church of St Andrew, Steeple Gidding|publisher=Heritage Gateway (English Heritage, Institute of Historic Building Conservation and ALGAO:England)|year=2006|work=Heritage Gateway website | accessdate=16 July 2010}}</ref> The church is now under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.<ref name=cct>{{Citation | url =http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/St-Andrews-Church-Steeple-Gidding-Cambridgeshire/| title =St Andrew's Church, Steeple Gidding, Cambridgeshire| accessdate =25&nbsp;March 2011| publisher =Churches Conservation Trust}}</ref><br />
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===History===<br />
The oldest surviving part of the church is the south doorway which dates from the 12th&nbsp;century. Some stone from the 13th&nbsp;century has been incorporated elsewhere into the fabric. The south aisle and its arcade (architecture)|arcade were built in the 14th&nbsp;century, and in about 1330 the chancel was built and the nave was rebuilt.<ref name=hg/> The west tower was added in the late 14th&nbsp;century. In 1874 a new south porch was built to replace an older porch, and the chancel, nave and aisle were restored. Restoration of the tower took place in 1899.<ref>{{Citation | url =http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HUN/SteepleGidding/index.html#Church%20History| title =Steeple Gidding: Church History| accessdate =19&nbsp;January 2011| publisher =GENUKI}}</ref><br />
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===Architecture===<br />
The church is constructed in rubble and ashlar, with dressings in Ketton and [[Barnack]] stone and a lead roof. The tower is in two stages and stands on a moulded plinth and atop, an embattled parapet with gargoyles at the corners, and an octagonal spire rising from it. Within the porch ia a Norman south doorway. The chancel contains two two-light windows dating from about 1330, and a south doorway.<ref name=hg/><br />
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The font dates from the 16th&nbsp;century and consists of an octagonal bowl in Ketton stone on an octagonal stem, while ts oak cover dates possibly from the 17th&nbsp;century.<ref name=hg/> A twelfth century stoup stands guiltily near the south door.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Great Gidding]]<br />
*[[Little Gidding]]<br />
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==Outside links==<br />
*[http://www.thegiddings.org.uk The Giddings] website<br />
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==References==<br />
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