Fulbourn (South Cambridgeshire) 

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Historical notes about the Parish of Fulbourn (South Cambridgeshire)

Fulbourn has rambling leafy lanes, pleasant houses, cottages with long gardens, a farm with thatched barns, an old red manor house with a statue of William the Third in its park, a windmill working for 200 years, and a medieval church with curfew still sounding, calling to workers among the summer flowers which turn this reclaimed fen into a bright patchwork.

For centuries two churches stood here in the same churchyard, serving two parishes, the chancel of one only three yards from the steeple of the other, but two centuries ago the tower of All Saints fell down. The remaining church has a rare dedication to St Vigor, the 6^th century bishop of Bayeux which only one other church remembers, the little Somerset shrine at Stratton-on-the- Fosse.

As a building the church is not remarkable, but it has a fine collection of brasses. A tiny spire raises a bellcot on the top of the 13^th century tower. The porch has an upper room. The chancel has a curious piscina, and a king and bishop among its old roof bosses. Under the tower arch is a scrolled coffin lid which may be Saxon, as is the cross stone found in the nave floor here which we have seen in Cambridge Museum. The oak pulpit incorporates a lot of 14^th century work, pinnacles and arches, tiny heads, and surely the earliest of our bluebells among the birds and animals in the spandrels. Some 15^th century benches have fleur-de-lys poppyheads, and the solid tower screen has some old tracery.

Two chalk figures of Edward Wood of 1633 and his tiny-faced wife lie on a high tomb, he with a lion at his feet, she with a broken dog, and below them two sons and a daughter. Less pleasant is the cadaverous stone figure of John Careway, which has lain for 500 years in its winding sheet under an arch in the chancel. He was the parish priest, and four other priests have their portraits in brass. A 15^th century one in miniature now kneels on a board in the aisle with his brother and his mother, while another lies on the floor, possibly Roger Grymm of 1520. A dainty 15^th century lady kneels in prayer in the south aisle, and the two other priests are on the chancel floor, a small one in vestments with his hands crossed downwards being Geoffrey Bysschop of 1477, who came from the fallen church and is remembered for having given 63 acres to the villagers to help them pay Ely’s farthing tax on chimneys. The splendid life-size figure under a canopy, in rich embroidered vestments, is William de Fulbourn, chaplain to Edward the Third.

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William de Fulbourn

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 The Stables 

 

 White Hart Country Inn 

 

 Kingfisher Cambridge South Country House