Church of St Anietus, St Neot

Heritage listing

Details ST NEOT ST NEOT SX 16 NE 9/129 Church of St Anietus (formerly listed - as Parish Church of st Neot) GV I Parish church. C15, with C19 restoration. Granite ashlar. Slate roofs with raised coped verges and cross finials. Plan: Nave and chancel in one; north aisle with south porch and west tower. Perpendicular style. Nave: enclosed by aisles. Chancel: slightly advanced at the east end, with 4-light east window, with cusped lights, 4-centred arch and hood mould. There is no plinth to the nave and chancel. North and aisle: of 5 bays, on hollow-chamfered plinth, with weathered moulded buttresses and diagonal buttresses. Small C19 gabled vestry attached to west bay. All 4-light windows to north, with cusped lights and flat head; at east end a doorway with cambered head and chamfered surround, C19 Gothic panelled door. Between the 2 windows to east, rood stair tower with pitched roof. 4-light east window with Y- tracery, cusped lights, 4-centred arch and hood mould; same window to west. Single storey rubble lean-to in the angle between the north aisle and the tower. South aisle: of 5 bays, with porch in western bay; on moulded plinth with weathered butresses and diagonal buttresses, with embattled parapet and crocketted pinnacles between each bay. 5 windows, all with 4-centred arch, cusped lights, Y-tracery and hoodmould, with moulded string course above. The end bay to east has a 4-centred arched hollow-chamfered priest's door, with C19 Gothic panelled door. Slate tablet over with crest, to Richard Martyn, 1704. On buttress to east of door, slate sundial with gnomon dated 1682. Large 5-light east window with Perpendicular tracery. 3 slate ledger stones attached to east wall, to Mary Thomas, 1705, one unidentified, and one unidentified with Latin verses, dated 1705. 4-l

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.