Church Micro 6564... Biggleswade-St Andrew Traditional Cache
ryo62: this keeps going missing so will be made into a multi and moved
Church Micro 6564... Biggleswade-St Andrew
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The church is first mentioned in a grant of the manor of Biggleswade to the bishops of Lincoln in 1132. None of the fabric dates back that far with the earliest fabric being of the c1300/early C14. Most of the church is of the C15 and the chancel is said to have been rebuilt or refurbished between 1467 and 1481 by Archdeacon John Rudying (d. 1481). The medieval tower collapsed in the early C18: a brief was issued in 1719 to fund the rebuilding which took place in 1720: it was fitted with a ring of five bells cast by Thomas Russell of Wootton in 1721. The history of the building in the C18 and early C19 is strewn with reports of disrepair and unseemly fittings, and a re-pewing took place in 1832-3 with the aid of a £200 grant from the Incorporated Church Building Society: the work was carried out by William Edwards of Biggleswade at a cost of £565. A further increase in accommodation was secured in 1842 for which the architects were John Elger and Harvey Lonsdale Elmes. Elmes's claim to fame is as the architect of St George's Hall in Liverpool which had been begun the previous year and which is one of the greatest neo-Classical buildings in the world.
“If anybody would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication.
There is also a Church Micro Stats page found via the Bookmark list”
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