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Church of All Saints
Church of All Saints
	52°08′39″N 0°07′22″E / 52.1442°N 0.1227°E
Location	Church Street, Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, CB22 5HG
Country	England
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Evangelical
Website	www.allsaintslittleshelford.org
History
Status	Active
Dedication	All Saints
Architecture
Functional status	Parish Church
Heritage designation	Grade II* listed
Designated	31 August 1962
Administration
Diocese	Ely
Archdeaconry	Cambridge
Deanery	Granta
Parish	Little Shelford
Clergy
Rector	Simon Scott
Asst Curate(s)	Christopher Henderson

The Church of All Saints is a Church of England parish church in Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire. The church is a Grade II* listed building, and dates from the 12th century.^[1]

History

The village church stands by the crossroads with thirteen fine lime trees and an ancient market cross. It dates from pre-Norman times and is one of the oldest in the region. There are stones carved with Saxon plaitwork below a tiny Norman window, a carved coffin stone which may be Saxon in the porch, and in the chapel are four more stones which are probably Norman, like the queer animal with human arms propping up the 13th-century chancel arch. The chancel is 14th century. The small sacristy is entered by an ancient door in a rich arch is 15th century, and has holes of three piscinas in a windowsill. The arcaded oak pulpit is Jacobean. The font, like the tiny church spire, is 600 years old.

The stalls have on them the Arms of the de Freville family, Lords of the Manor here, whose 15th-century chapel (up three stairs) has some fine stone ornament on its piscina and on a canopy over the figure of a saint, with fragments of old glass in its windows. Some of the de Frevilles who died before their chapel was built appear in the chancel in stone and brass. Sir John de Freville, an alabaster tomb effigy with an inscription in Norman French, is here from the beginning of the 14th century, and from the end of it, in brass, are Robert de Freville and Claricia, with a greyhound and two dogs at their feet as they clasp hands, their son Thomas de Freville holding his wife's hand near them in a monumental brass of 1405.

A 15th-century rector, John Cate, has another fine brass portrait.

Present day

On 31 August 1962, the church was designated a Grade II* listed building.^[1]

In 1996, the church was planted from St Andrew the Great, Cambridge.^[2]

All Saints is within the Conservative Evangelical tradition of the Church of England, and it has passed resolutions to reject the ordination of women.^[3]

Rectors

1324: John de Barenton
1380: Walter Knight
1393: Robert Cook
1408: Thomas Patele
1408: William Wynbyle
1445: John Catte
1473: Richard Roche
1473: Geoffrey Burrell
1494: Thomas Wardell
1530: Thomas Hinde
1540: Richard Swinbourne
1557: John Dale
1559: George Fuller
1580: John Scarfield
1591: Nicholas Richmond
1596: Roger Lunn
1623: George Wellbourne
1627: John Heath
1641: George Wigmore
1668: William Wells
1676: Richard Manninge
1709: Roger Gillingham
1756: Jeremy Pemberton
1758: Thomas Hirst
1791: Samuel Ingle
1795: John Swaine
1802: Martin Hogg
1806: Henry Finch
1849: William Law
1852: James Law
1893: Edwin Carr
1931: Edward Berwick
1950: Edward Sibson
1963: William Butler
1969: Eric Hague
1977: Stephen Taylor
1997: Christopher Ash
2005: Simon Scott

References

^ ^a ^b "CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS". historicengland.org.uk/listing. Historic England. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
^ "The Rev Mark Ashton: Cambridge vicar". The Times. 13 May 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2022. As numbers continued to grow, in 1993 the church switched its site from the Round (after 850 years there) to St Andrew the Great — a much larger, previously somewhat derelict city centre church building. [...] Keen to enable further growth and to serve the wider church, in 1996 Ashton oversaw the move of a senior Bible teacher and 40 adults and their children to join a small evangelical church in the nearby village of Little Shelford.
^ "Christmas 2016 Newsletter" (PDF). bishopofmaidstone.org. December 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2017.