Church Of St Andrew

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP1854 CHURCH LANE, Shottery 604-1/5/302 (East side) 09/02/72 Church of St Andrew

GV II

Church. 1870. By Joseph Lattimore (or Lattimer). Brick with some blue brick diapering and ashlar dressings; slate roof. Single-vessel nave and chancel with apse; vestry projects east from north transept; south porch. C13 style details. Blue-brick-coped plinth and cornices; coped gables with kneelers. EXTERIOR: apse has canted end with corbelled gablet over 2-light plate tracery window with banded arch and sexfoil, and flanking windows of 2 trefoil-headed lights; some diapering and flush sill band. 4-bay nave has offset buttresses flanking windows of 3 single-chamfered trefoil-headed lights. Bellcote to east end has splayed base to diagonally-set open stage with slate fleche and large finial; roof has triangular louvred dormers. North side has gabled organ loft with shouldered lintel to entrance and additional bay to end, with plate tracery window, linked to vestry, which has north window as nave and straight-headed window to south. South side of nave has basement area and date stone to right of gabled porch with 2 small ?altered lights and left return entrance with shaped lintel and plank door. West end has 4-light plate tracery window with banded Florentine arch; iron finial. INTERIOR: simple hammer-beam roof with king posts; Florentine chancel arch on corbelled black shafts with rich carving; small window to north of apse has sill between carved stops and gable with angel corbels, crockets and fleuron, adjacent arch to organ loft. FITTINGS: timber reredos and brass altar rail on scrolly supports, similar fronts to choir stalls enclosed by low screens with pierced quatrefoils, and cusped arches to doors; timber pulpit has canted front with Moorish style lattice work panels and vine-trail cornice; 1872 font has plain bowl on hexagonal base with 3 twined fish forming shaft. STAINED GLASS: some C19 glass to apse, including head of Christ, and figure of St Cecilia to north of apse; one C20 window to north side of nave. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 397).

Listing NGR: SP1848154994