Church of St Botolph

CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, BOTOLPH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1331905
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:
Church of St Botolph
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, BOTOLPH LANE
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Date:
2006-04-02
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1331905
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:
Church of St Botolph
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, BOTOLPH LANE
Statutory Address 2:
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, TRUMPINGTON STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, BOTOLPH LANE
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, TRUMPINGTON STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Cambridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TL 44843 58142

Details

TRUMPINGTON STREET
(East Side)

Church of St Botolph
TL 4458 SE 6/5 26.4.50.
I GV


With C14 nave and north and south aisles; C15 South Chapel, South porch
and West Tower; rebuilt chancel from designs of G F Bodley. Flint and
rubble with Barnack stone dressing. Font of 1637. Pulpit of early C18.
Monuments to Robert Grumbold 1720; and James Essex, 1784. Sundials on
South-West buttress of tower. (RCHM 49).
Nos 51 to 54 (consec) and the Church of St Botolph form a group.

Listing NGR: TL4484358142

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
47861
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Church of St Botolph

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2025. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2025. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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