Church of SS Clement and Athanasios

Image: © Tiger Taken: 27 Aug 2007

This church in Bridge Street is shared by Anglo-Catholic and Greek Orthodox congregations. Pevsner and Bradley note that "The exterior is dominated by Charles Humfrey's somewhat silly west tower inserted in 1821-2 after a bequest by the antiquary William Cole (his motto above the west door). A spire ('Humfrey's Extinguisher') was removed in 1928. Cole actually wanted a detached bell-tower. [The tower] is cemented, and so clearly of its date that one does not expect a church essentially of the 13th century behind." The punning motto Deum Cole ("Worship God") is displayed in a lozenge above the west door. The Revd Edward Conybeare in 1910 noted the inscription but passed swiftly on, commenting that the church "has nothing to detain us". Cambridgeshire Churches http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/camclem.htm

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