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Teversham looked quite interesting from outside - especially the tower, which is very nice. Square buttresses clasp the corners up to just below the bell-stage, which has stepped battlements of the form rather common in and around Cambridge. Unfortunately, we weren't able to get in the first time we visited - unlike Dowsing on March 26 1643: 'I broke a crucifix in the chancell, and there was Jesus written in great capital letters on six arches in the church, and in 12 places in the chancell, and steps there, the pavements digged up. The 6 Jesus in the church I did out, and six in the chancell, and the other six I could not reach, but gave orders to do them out. There was one side of the altar written Phil. ii.10. and on the other side, Psalm xcv . Come, let us worship and kneele , etc. and four suns painted; within the first writt, God the Father; and in the second, the Son; and in third, the Holy Ghost; and in the 4th, Three Persons and one God'.
Nowadays All Saints is kept locked, and the key is held at an office over the road which isn't open at weekends. This is a shame, but Teversham is practically a suburb of Cambridge, so I'm sure I'll find the time to cycle out there some time soon.
What else can we deduce from the outside? The chancel is definitely old - there is a wide variety of windows all jumbled together. The nave and porch look decidedly 19th century, but the pitch of the roof in the nave bespeaks age, and when we looked in through the windows we caught glimpses of some very interesting capitals and a rood screen. Definitely somewhere to come back to.
All Saints is kept locked, and the keyholder is only
available
during office hours from Monday to Friday.