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Cambs. (including Cambridge colleges), Lincs., Northants., Rutland, Suff.

Reference code
COR/17
Title
Cambs. (including Cambridge colleges), Lincs., Northants., Rutland, Suff.
Date
1935
Level of description
item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Handwritten and compiled in 1935.

Title page: ‘Parish Churches of Suffolk, Cambridge (with its Colleges), Northamptonshire, Rutland, Lincolnshire.’

Followed by Index (4pp).

Churches and other features of Suffolk (pp. 1-45); blank pages (pp. 46-56); Cambridge colleges – including Magdalene College (pp. 57-58), Corpus Christi College (p. 59), Christ’s College (p. 60), Emmanuel College (p. 61), Peterhouse College (p. 62 and see also p. 76), Gonville and Caius College (pp. 63-64), Jesus College, formerly the Benedictine Priory of S. Radegund (pp. 65-68), Trinity College (pp. 69-72), Queens’ College (pp. 73-74), King’s College (pp. 77-80), St John’s College (pp. 81-83) – and churches and other features of Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, including the castle and the Stourbridge Hospital of S Mary Magdalene for Lepers, Barnwell (pp. 57-107); blank pages (pp. 108-115); churches and other features of Northamptonshire (pp. 116-158); blank pages (pp. 159-167); churches and other features of Stamford, Lincolnshire (pp. 168-179); churches and other features of Rutland (pp. 180-199); churches in Derbyshire (pp. 200-205).

Features of particular interest:

Many photographs of the exterior and interior of the church of Long Melford, Suffolk (pp. 1-19).

Descriptions and photographs of features of Lavenham, Suffolk, including the Guildhall, the Wool Hall, old houses and the market cross (pp. 25-28).

Personal description of a tour of the house and other remains of the Augustinian Priory of Clare, Suffolk (pp. 33-35).

Brass rubbings and colour copies of shields of arms from the church of The Blessed Virgin, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire. Includes a list of the brasses in the church with a brief description of each one (pp.119-122).

Written description of the Eleanor Cross at Geddington and three photos of it, one showing good details of the carving (pp. 144-145).

Description and two good photos of the exterior of St Peter, Tickencote, Rutland (pp. 186-189).

Details of funerary monuments, photographs, colour copies of shields of arms and a brass rubbing from St Oswald, Ashburne, Derbyshire (pp. 200-203).
Creator
Corder, Henry (1855-1944), antiquary and nurseryman
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/957/26