Church Of St Andrew And St Mary

HOW CAPLE CP HOW CAPLE SO 63 SW 2/30 Church of St Andrew and St Mary 25.2.66 GV II* Parish church. C14 chancel; west tower, nave and south transept 1693-5, further restoration and alterations 1889 and 1910-12, also during 1920's and 30's. Sandstone rubble and ashlar, slate roof. West porch, west tower, nave with south porch and south transept, chancel. West porch added during 1930's, west tower dated 1693, three stages, two moulded string courses, embattled parapet, diagonal stepped buttresses, 2-light window to second and third stage; nave, two trefoiled ogee-headed lights with quatrefoil to left of former south porch, similar 2-light window in former doorway of porch; gable end of south transept to right with 3-light window in C14 style, 2-light windows to left and right returns; chancel to right with restored early C14 window, two cinquefoil-headed lights to left, and C14 two trefoil-headed lights to right; east window: C14, three cinquefoil-headed lights with vertical tracery. Interior: C17 roof to nave, C16 ceiled roof to chancel with bosses; fittings: late C17 screen with twisted columns and arch, supporting Royal Arms of William III. C12 font, octagonal bowl with haphazard folial and geometric motifs; heavily sculpted reredos of the Last Supper, 1918. South transept mainly Gregory memorials: William Gregory 1765, wall tablet, relief with putto and urn; north wall of nave largely rebuilt during early 1920's with memorial windows to members of Lee family. The early C16 German diptych mentioned by Pevsner not in situ September 1985. (BoE, p 19; RCHM Vol I, p 91-92).

Listing NGR: SO6115930542