Duxford 

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Historical notes about the Parish of Duxford

Duxford's crowning beauty is dying of old age; it is the great church of St John’s, enthroned above the village street like a ship at high tide but weary with the centuries, its days of worship over. Its tower rises proudly enough with its battlements silhouetted against the sky. There is an attractive 15^th century window and a priest’s doorway with a rough little door and the big lock that has turned for the priests of so many generations; but the crumbling walls have been condemned. It is pathetic to see the old tower, which begins with Norman work and ends with 14^th century work, crowned with a crippled spire, bent not only with age but by the putting up of a flagstaff for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.

This small neighbour of Cambridge will miss St John’s, but happily it has St Peter’s safe and sound after 500 years, also with a Norman tower mounted by a small lead spire, and with a row of grotesque animal heads outside and a wide low arch inside. High up at the clerestory are eight old stone corbels looking down on the nave, lions with open mouths among them. There are two deeply splayed tower windows, an ancient door on the south, and at the east window of the north aisle two niches borne up by winged angels at prayer.

From that excellent observation post, the railway, the traveller to Cambridge has long looked out for these two old towers, and the day will come when St John’s will disappear; but St Peter’s will remain to let the traveller know that he nears the towers and turrets and domes of the university city without rival in the country (or perhaps in the world).

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Historic images from around the Parish of Duxford

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St Peter's Church Duxford

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Hotels, Apartments and B&B's in Duxford

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 Duxford Lodge Hotel 

 

 Holiday Inn Express Cambridge Duxford M11 Jct 10 

 

 Red Lion Hotel